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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

Rain barrels are a popular aid for gardening, landscaping and cleaning at home. Before setting up your own rain barrel, here's what you should know about how to guard against disease and insure ...

As an extra incentive this year, CPW staff will deliver your rain barrel directly to your home at no additional cost during the week of May 4 - 8 with an optional water conservation consultation.

To be clear, he doesn’t use the rain collected to water a lawn, but for flower beds, trees and a vegetable garden. Last week’s rain will last a good part of the summer if used wisely.

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!

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 ...