Use Rain Barrels For Collecting Rain Water For Your Garden

I have never been able to understand why people would be watering their lawn and garden all day while they are at work, what a waste of a precious substance. It's obvious that they either just don't give a crap or they are cluesless about conservation.

As a kid growing up on a farm we had a well and there was strict rules about how to use water and NOT waste it. The well didn't always have water in it and if my parents didn't plan for the future by building a reservoir to collect rain water we would have been in big trouble.

Today I live in a city and have to rely on the city to supply water to our taps but we still don't waste water.

We also have flower gardens and a vegetable garden that is forever growing in size and it needs watering when we aren't getting much rain. We could just grab the garden hose and soak everything and put a lot of water where it's not actually needed but we don't.

Instead of wasting the cities water supply on our yard we collect rain water and use that when we have it.

This coming season we plan to double or triple the size of our vegetable garden and we want a lot more flowers and shrubs so we will need to get a couple more rain barrels to collect rain water.

Note: If you find a useful barrel for collecting rain be sure that you add a mess screen over the top. It's important to have mess so that bugs like mosquitoes don't get in the water to lay eggs.