Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Gonna bread and fry up tonight. Might be good...

 

I figure underground would be better, since it's out of the way.

Where would the pump be mounted with an underground tank?

 

I do not know. Never had an undeground rain barrel. Too much work and too expensive.

 

Since the yard is a mess, the machine in the yard now. This is the time to install the underground rain water collection tanks. Plus the masonry contractor does irrigation work.

I don't know the pros/cons to above ground tank vs below ground,

 

Below ground here is definitely a No Go. Be lucky to have it ever thaw with -40C. Even with a blanket of snow it wouldn’t stand a chance.


Cheap, econo route right there.

 

Does the water tanks goes below the frost line?

Hopefully what does freezes will thaw out before summer.

 

I just turn this one upside down & call ‘er good. Solid top keeps the Skeeters down too. Every once ‘n a while I might need to break out the hot glue gun but it suits the purpose. Pretty sure frost would eventually break anything.

 

Welcome back

 

Suppose you could call it seasonal

 

This is the one I've been looking at.



I have a few weeks to make a decision on which design I want to go with.

 

If it ever cracks do you want to deal with digging it up? A polyethylene 55 gallon drum would be easier, no electrical running to it for a pump, and easier to drain in the fall/winter.

 

Or a 275gal IBC container, locally they are $50 for white, $75 to $90 for black.

 

thats cheap.

 

Veggies are from this mornings pull.

most of what we canned today

 

Word of the day. Mustard pickles. Gotta have ‘em.

 

It's not too cheap if they are not food grade. I have only paid for 2 ever, they were food grade and 3x rinsed. Those cost me $70 /each. I had a contact for non-food grade (cleaning chemicals) totes for $40/ each, never wanted to chance it with the water storage. I also, had a contact years ago who was able to get me 13 food grade (vegetable oil) totes for free because the distributor would not take them back once the company changed suppliers. They were not cleaned or rinsed and some had some oil still within. You can't beat free.

 

Might have one cantelope

 

I might have to get rid of my chickens. They are creating more of a nuisance than I would like. They don’t roost on the branches or ladders I’ve created for them, so the roost on the coop roof, the roof is loaded with poop from them and it’s a miserable task and tons of flies. We are probably 3 chickens (of 5 total) too heavy for the space we have for them not being caged. It’s going to be a hard talk with my wife but it needs to happen.

 

Bummer. City was gonna allow ‘em in this year for the first time. Then they detected avian flu & put the kybosh on the whole shabang. Maybe next year.