fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread

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Today I got the hardware cloth placed over the hoop coop, secured with a few zip-ties. They will hold it in place until I can devote the time to finish attaching it.
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And I made a stop at the local nursery!
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The flowers are a variety of bidens, the herbs are oregano, and the other 4 pack is collards.
 

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Waddayathink?

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Two barrels filled, pond filled, so overflow backed up!

I have a 25' hose that I can stretch out farther from the house. I even have a soaker hose I could add to disperse the rainwater even farther away.
 

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Rainwater calculator...
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I want to figure out how much I can collect with 1" of rain.

Roof area is roughly square footage of the house = 1000
Only have gutter on back, so half = 500
Only using one downspout, so half = 250

250 sq ft x 1" rainfall x .62 = 155 gallons of water.

That's with a 1" rainfall, we got 1.5".

With 1.5" add half again or 77.5 gallons = 232.5 gallons!

No wonder my two 55 gallon rainbarrels overflowed. I would need all four I own attached to one downspout just to catch 25% of a 1.5" rainfall.

Wow.
 
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A water catchment off my roof would overflow quickly. I get such torrential rains. It would be nice to have in a drought, but the rest of the time it would be in overflow mode. LOL
 

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A water catchment off my roof would overflow quickly. I get such torrential rains. It would be nice to have in a drought, but the rest of the time it would be in overflow mode. LOL
We get about 48" of rain annually, on average, but still have drought in the summer. I'm planning on using the rain collected on the gardens as needed.
 
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