never on vegetable plants. Is that true? Or is rain-barrel water OK for edible crops? A: From the research I've read, I'd lean toward caution and stick with the magazine advice: use your rain ...

So long as the barrels are cleaned annually, though, the water should be clean enough to irrigate a vegetable garden. How much does it have to rain to fill a rain barrel? The rule of thumb is this ...

I like to store the water in a rain barrel and then let it drain out through my vegetable beds during dry spells, to keep me from needing to haul water around. But what do you do when 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. As part of ...