Rainwater harvesting is an eco-friendly practice, but understand the risks before adding rain barrel water to your vegetable garden. Rainwater harvesting is an eco-friendly practice, ...

Rain-barrel water can pick up enough pollutants that it's possible to contaminate edible crops. ... Can rain barrel water be used on vegetables? Gardening Q&A with George Weigel. Updated: Aug. 17, ...

Can I Use Rain Barrel Water in a Vegetable Garden? Yes. However, avoid using water collected in rain barrels on root crops or leafy greens you plan to eat.

Rain barrels are a great way to conserve water. They can be decorated, but do so before you install hardware so you don’t have to paint around it. Gardens typically get abundant water during ...

That means flowers, trees, vegetables and shrubs may be more vibrant and hearty when irrigated with rainwater. The nuts and bolts of making a rain barrel are simple.

The contest, which seeks out the gardens that help make the city livable, includes home gardener categories for flowers/landscape, vegetable, entrance, container and new garden, as well as ...

Learn here how to use rain water harvesting to water your garden. Think beyond the rain barrel and figure out how to redirect water runoff. Harvest more water for your garden!

VALPARAISO — Scout Troop 35497 of Washington Township Elementary School recently helped obtain rain barrels for the vegetable garden at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Valparaiso.

Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. For an exotic, drought-tolerant addition to your vegetable garden, plant New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonoides). It is not botanically related ...

A vegetable garden in summer needs roughly 1-gallon of water per square foot per week. ... Here’s the fun part. I had a good site for my rain barrel, but my garden was up a gentle slope.

The SAWS Rain barrel program will not solve our long-term water challenges or reduce water rates. But it will allow gardeners to obtain a high quality rain barrel at a bargain price and to more ...