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Water Butt

Garden GnomessGarden Gnomess Posts: 74
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How long can rain water remain in a water Butt?

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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    has it got a lid?

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    until you use it, pour it away, or it evaporates.

    Devon.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    Unless it doesn't have a lid, in which case until the biting insect population drives you completely insane

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • SwissSueSwissSue Posts: 1,447
    raisingirl says:

    Unless it doesn't have a lid, in which case until the biting insect population drives you completely insane

    See original post

     A drop of vegetable oil will solve that problem, mossie larvae will suffocate!

  • Garden GnomessGarden Gnomess Posts: 74

    Thank you, it doesn't have a lid at the moment but I'll be getting one, cant be doing with biting insects. 

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