As most readers probably appreciate, gardens require ongoing maintenance, mulching, nutritional needs of plants, and not least of all water. Which with global warming is becoming more and more precious. So here in the suburbs of melbourne we try hard to keep our garden lush and green by recycling our grey water and now, capturing any water which does come out of the sky, in our tank.
I am very fortunate as Mr Secret Gardens is an engineer, who has cleverly arranged the drainage so that all water off the house, and driveway, runs into two smaller tanksand and then gets pumped up into the main tank at the back of the house. We have managed to disguise it quite well behind our olive tree, (you can see it hiding in the shadows in the title pic), happily it seems to be filling already. Any excess runoff will go back into the storm water but with our garden being the size it is there is not much chance of having too much of that! There is also another tank which we will use to catch the overflow which we may in the future get a plumber to hook up to the cistern. But for now I am content with using what comes out of the sky to keep our garden alive!
I am of the opinion that water tanks should be a compulsory part of all new homes. To me and many of the people i know it just makes sense. We would save water, and save money too!
And here are my lovely girls enjoying the dust !!!
Thanks for reading, your comments and remarks are always welcome!!
Totally agree. We are install a watering system this year for our garden as well. Yours looks awesome.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you however here in this area we receive so much rain that saving water this way just isn't practical. Mobile AL is one of the rainest cities - we actually bump up to Seattle with the amount of rain we recieve
ReplyDeleteNice job! It is actually illegal here in the state of Colorado (USA) to do this. Water rights are such a big deal here that we are not even allowed to catch the rain off of our own homes. Crazy.
ReplyDeleteWow Kimberly you're right that is crazy. Hopefully they will one day come to their senses. Here the government actually subsidizes us for purchasing tanks.
ReplyDeleteJust found you through Rhonda's blog. Beautiful yard, chickens and dog. Thanks for sharing your kitchen pics!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome Lindy and thanks for coming to visit!
ReplyDeleteHi I found you also through Rhonda's blog. Love the knife block. And I agree water tanks are almost an essential in this driest of all continents. Makes so much sense.
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ReplyDeleteHi, I just found you too from googling up "crepe myrtles". I live in Melbourne and am just starting a garden. We have a new townhouse and I was excited when we had a water tank...but it is hooked upto the toilets..sigh. I need to do some research about catching water from other downpipes. Just don't have the room for another watertank though.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see your new tank. It's a really good idea for your garden... But don't forget your little weeds ! Don't let them grow again with all this water ;)...
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