Conserve water, use rain water
Some of us live in very dry areas and having a garden can be difficult. Many will just give up on the thought of gardening when they realize how how little water there is, but there are ways to cope with less water.
What you can do is start rain harvesting. It’s one of the best ways to keep your garden alive during a drought. Drought is most of the time predicted far in advanced, or those already experiencing a drought will be given a few weeks of heavy rain. When the rain come,make sure you take the opportunity to set up several rain barrels. Many people think this would be a time consuming or that it’s plain silly. But this will seriously save you many gallons of water and it actually requires little work.
Finding the barrels is easy. You can either use your own garbage bins or you can go to SimplyRainBarrels.com where they have a variety of rain barrels for sale. When you have your rain barrel, you will probably want to cover the top with a screen of some sort to filter out any unwanted leaves or debris that might fall off the roof of your house.
The use of rain water barrels might sound like an old idea but it will make really make a lot of difference!
