http://rainwaterbarrel.org/rain-barrel-how-to Harvest rainwater for your garden using rain barrels. Fri, 28 May 2010 19:33:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://rainwaterbarrel.org/rain-barrel-how-to/comment-page-1#comment-45 rik2u Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:48:40 +0000 http://rainwaterbarrel.org/rain-barrel-how-to#comment-45 We've been rainwater harvesting for over 20 years and love the money we save on our water bills. We clean everything from deck furniture, cars, truck, boats, windows, decking, water the victory garden, flowers, hanging baskets, water our pets, and clean up driveways and patios as well. We keep our gutters clean all year long, about every 2-4 weeks, as we have huge oak & pine trees around our home. The leaves, pine needles, sand, mosquitoes during season, creepy crawlies, and bird nests seem to love our rain gutters. But we know our rainwater going into our barrels will be as clean as the rainwater flowing out of our rain gutters. We clean our gutters with a tool called the Gutter Clutter Buster that was purchased on-line. It simply attaches to our 2-1/2" wet/dry vac hose and literally vacuums out all debris, wet or dry, while I stay on the ground. No ladders needed anymore. When I'm done I empty the vac canister into our compost pile or around my plants for a thicker layer of mulch saving us even more money and wate. So Happy Harvesting To All and Keep Those Rain Barrels Coming. We’ve been rainwater harvesting for over 20 years and love the money we save on our water bills. We clean everything from deck furniture, cars, truck, boats, windows, decking, water the victory garden, flowers, hanging baskets, water our pets, and clean up driveways and patios as well. We keep our gutters clean all year long, about every 2-4 weeks, as we have huge oak & pine trees around our home. The leaves, pine needles, sand, mosquitoes during season, creepy crawlies, and bird nests seem to love our rain gutters. But we know our rainwater going into our barrels will be as clean as the rainwater flowing out of our rain gutters. We clean our gutters with a tool called the Gutter Clutter Buster that was purchased on-line. It simply attaches to our 2-1/2″ wet/dry vac hose and literally vacuums out all debris, wet or dry, while I stay on the ground. No ladders needed anymore. When I’m done I empty the vac canister into our compost pile or around my plants for a thicker layer of mulch saving us even more money and wate.
So Happy Harvesting To All and Keep Those Rain Barrels Coming.

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