My bathwater goes straight onto the garden via the syphon pump and a long-ish hose. I move the garden end of the hose at some point during the day so that a different area gets the water each evening.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We have 6 350 litre water butts on assorted drainpipes. Two catch water off the hen house in the veg plot but only one ever gets full as t'other is on the leeward side. They don't have enough to keep my tomatoes going in a drought.
One of the others takes water off the garage roof and the other 3 are connected to house drians and gutters and keep my pots going over summer.
There are two more drainpipes with no water capture system but I've been wondering if it would be possible to take some from the pipes and diverting it along a rill straight into flower beds. Anyone know if that would be feasible?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Should be if the flower beds are lower than the drain where the rill would start, and if you're handy enough at building to make the rill with an appropriate slope so it doesn't back up and overflow. If you get heavy rainfall eg in winter you might want some sort of diverter mechanism that you can switch over so you can have the rain go down the drain when your flowerbeds don't need it (unless you have free-draining soil where there's no such thing as too much water).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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One of the others takes water off the garage roof and the other 3 are connected to house drians and gutters and keep my pots going over summer.
There are two more drainpipes with no water capture system but I've been wondering if it would be possible to take some from the pipes and diverting it along a rill straight into flower beds. Anyone know if that would be feasible?