Comments on: Rainwater Harvesting, Part II

By: aGardenInTheCity

aGardenInTheCity — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:48:22 +0000

Go go Youtube.com and in the search bar, enter: “making a rainwater storage barrel with spigot”. That shows the clearest, easiest instructions that we’ve seen anywhere. Sorry for the delay, but we’ve been out of the country.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:32:18 +0000

I’d like to see a closeup of the spigot part that lets the water out. I always have trouble with most of the contraptions which attach, they pool water through the space where the washer should fit snuggly. Did you have to get into the barrel for the job? Was the glue used to affix the hosepipe to the barrel all you needed?

You could always put a weeping hose to it and never really have to water.

Here, they sell the whole lot for 100.00 each and more!

By: Mary Delle

Mary Delle — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:43:34 +0000

Good luck on your barrels. Looks like they are well set up.

By: aGardenInTheCity

aGardenInTheCity — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:07:59 +0000

I didn’t see anything about a heat sink on your blog. I’d love to see photos of it.

By: Nell Jean

Nell Jean — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:42:15 +0000

It’s all interesting, other people’s projects. I like the way you hid the barrels. Well executed projects take time. It turned out well, don’t you think?

We use 50 gallon barrels as a heat sink in the little greenhouse. We used barrels that formerly held liquid hand soap. We set them on 16″ pavers lined up, with bricks to piece out the length. The hardware came from the hardware store (cheaper) to link them together. There’s a little pump to circulate the water.