Painting Rain Barrels & Bowling Balls
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Rain Barrel and PVC Irrigation System Completed
Comments (25)Hi Jean - The biggest issue with people and putting stuff in their front yards comes down to something being an eyesore and decreasing property values - that is the only thing I can think of. It would be the same thing as someone not mowing their grass in weeks and it being a foot tall in their front yard in a neighborhood - or crap just thrown around the front yard with no respect to what it makes the neighborhood look like. Right now in the front yard I do not have the PVC "fencing" up that will hold the deer net around the gardening area. I will be putting that up soon when I plant the corn in the front yard. I'm actually surprised they have not got into the garden with the broccoli, peppers, and celery growing. I do have about 60 onions in the front - and deer do not like onions. Maybe this is keeping them away from the front where I have all of these items planted. The PVC fencing is what will make it look more like an eye sore than what it already is. But, my neighbors haven't said anything to me about it. In regards to videos, here is my YouTube Channel so you can see all of my videos that I've taken - wine making and information about the barrels. --- Organicislandfarmer - the water pressure works very well. I have not tried soaker hoses, but the irrigation works very well with the PVC pipe that I use. It does have its limits though - and it seems that I can get by with up to about 150 holes from one feed off the the 3/4-inch main pipe from the barrels. So in the front garden, I have about 120 holes total. Been working no problem with one feed from the line. I then have two other gardens - one behind the garage and the other next to the house. Originally I had all of these hooked to one feed amongst almost 300 holes. The pressure wasn't enough to do this. So I split it in half - about 150 holes each - and it is working well in this fashion. In regards to sprinklers - I highly doubt there would be enough pressure for what you would use it for. It will work, but you won't have near the range like you would if using tap. The other idea would be to get an in-line pump that could take the water from the barrels and pressurize it. Here is a link that might be useful: BsnTech Gardening Blog...See MoreIdeas for a big bowl planter cheap?
Comments (11)I saw a show on TV a long time ago that took those giant stainless silver bowls that you have in your kitchen where 10 bowls fit in one. You know the ones. They sprayed the biggest bowl with pam cooking spray (so the concrete wouldn't stick to it) - then put concrete in the bowl maybe 1/3 full and then put one of the other bowls (sprayed in pam on the outside) inside the other bowl and concrete and squished the concrete up the sides of the big bowl till it reached the top. He then put a bunch of rocks or bricks in the little bowl to keep it weighed down and let the concrete set for a while (NOT fully) but enough so that the concrete would keep its shape when you remove the two bowls....See MoreRain Barrel?
Comments (62)I want to alert anyone wanting to use so-called food grade plastics for growing vegetables or for the collecting of rain water, that these containers are very toxic and grow deadly strains of black, red, orange and green molds. Watering plants with the 5 gallon buckets that came from Chinese restaurants that contained soy sauce are especially toxic if used over a period of time, as the minerals from water wear down the plastic and make it more and more porous and toxic. The toxicity is both from the leaching of the plastic and mold into the water. PETROLEUM BASED PLASTICS ARE TOXIC We have to take our health into our own hands, as few; (not all)in business have any sense of morality when a profit can be made!...See MoreRain - are you getting any?
Comments (31)It was a little tricky getting the Maple tree branch off my roof near the overhead powerline.. the branch was about a foot from the line... I don't like being near any power line. My neighbor has a large walnut tree between the sidewalk and the street that lost a very large branch last night. may back yard was down wind from that tree during the storm and I found several golf ball size green walnuts in my back yard this morning. About 30 ft away! Murphy's Law was in place this morning ... as the neighbor who lost the walnut limb had his tree limbs picked up by the city street dept as it fell in the street. It took a big bucket loader to get that limb into the city dump truck. The city crew waved and smiled at me as I was sawing up my Maple limbs. But, they would not take my debris as it fell on my house and yard. If I had been up earlier I should have dragged my limbs out into the street near the neighbors limbs. (smirk) Since tree limbs can not go into the Hardin County land fill...disposal is always a problem. I know a lot of tree limbs will find their way to local farm burn piles. My neighbor who benefited from the city's street crew clening up his mess for free is a great neighbor...but he could care less about his lawn. Its more weed than grass. I'm the lawn wacko on my street and I'm the one stuck with tree cleanup and disposal at my expense ... Murphy's Law. (smile) Pete in Iowa Falls...See Moremjowest
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