Comments on: gardens, rain barrels + more bike-homes! http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/gardens-rain-barrels-more-bike-homes.html Your home for all things Design. Home Tours, DIY Project, City Guides, Shopping Guides, Before & Afters and much more Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:15:13 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Aimee http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/gardens-rain-barrels-more-bike-homes.html/comment-page-1#comment-118601 Aimee Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:06:16 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=37135#comment-118601 Love the multiple levels - great food for thoughts. I did a rainbarrel workshop at the NE Portland Tool Library and quickly realized that I need a cistern, since 1/2" of rain from a small home's rooftop (one of two gutters) fills up the rainbarrel and the rest comes out the overflow. (see my post on my blog http://ecogrrlnetwork.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-driveway-garden.html) . So I'm looking into cisterns now :) Love the multiple levels – great food for thoughts. I did a rainbarrel workshop at the NE Portland Tool Library and quickly realized that I need a cistern, since 1/2″ of rain from a small home’s rooftop (one of two gutters) fills up the rainbarrel and the rest comes out the overflow. (see my post on my blog http://ecogrrlnetwork.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-driveway-garden.html) . So I’m looking into cisterns now :)

]]> By: jill bliss http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/gardens-rain-barrels-more-bike-homes.html/comment-page-1#comment-118480 jill bliss Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:23 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=37135#comment-118480 steven, good solution, and good ideas! steven, good solution, and good ideas!

]]> By: jill bliss http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/gardens-rain-barrels-more-bike-homes.html/comment-page-1#comment-118479 jill bliss Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:16:44 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=37135#comment-118479 julia - tom is my rain barrel source. he modifies the barrels into a well-designed whole system for rain collection: Tom Jardine, Oregon Rain Barrels 503-702-9719 tell him i sent you! julia – tom is my rain barrel source. he modifies the barrels into a well-designed whole system for rain collection:
Tom Jardine, Oregon Rain Barrels
503-702-9719

tell him i sent you!

]]> By: Steven Hoober http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/gardens-rain-barrels-more-bike-homes.html/comment-page-1#comment-118464 Steven Hoober Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:04:33 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=37135#comment-118464 I don't seem to have a photo, but we were disappointed in all the rain barrel solutions currently available, so stuffed a 10 ft diameter feed tank under the deck. You know, those big, circular galvanized things horses use on farms? Got one off Craigslist for like $20, and then put an army surplus mosquito net over the top to keep out... mosquitos. It works great, and gives a LOT of holding capacity. Before we went to this, we did a lot of re-routing water from the downspouts, to dump into the side-yard garden beds. It distributes the water instead of dumping into the wastewater system, and waters the garden beds for free. It's also possible to use perforated pipes (and similar, like pebble fields) in reverse of their normal plan, to distribute water like this over an area like a long garden bed. So, think about what you have already around the house, landscaping and structure-wise. You might be able to add holding capacity by simply piping the water around. I don’t seem to have a photo, but we were disappointed in all the rain barrel solutions currently available, so stuffed a 10 ft diameter feed tank under the deck. You know, those big, circular galvanized things horses use on farms? Got one off Craigslist for like $20, and then put an army surplus mosquito net over the top to keep out… mosquitos. It works great, and gives a LOT of holding capacity.

Before we went to this, we did a lot of re-routing water from the downspouts, to dump into the side-yard garden beds. It distributes the water instead of dumping into the wastewater system, and waters the garden beds for free. It’s also possible to use perforated pipes (and similar, like pebble fields) in reverse of their normal plan, to distribute water like this over an area like a long garden bed.

So, think about what you have already around the house, landscaping and structure-wise. You might be able to add holding capacity by simply piping the water around.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/gardens-rain-barrels-more-bike-homes.html/comment-page-1#comment-118364 Elizabeth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:37:11 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=37135#comment-118364 I like the 3rd picture with the big rocks, will add something like that in my future garden. Can't wait to get my home to start my vege garden too! gosh you got me all excited again. Elizabeth. I like the 3rd picture with the big rocks, will add something like that in my future garden. Can’t wait to get my home to start my vege garden too! gosh you got me all excited again.
Elizabeth.

]]> By: Julia http://www.designsponge.com/2009/11/gardens-rain-barrels-more-bike-homes.html/comment-page-1#comment-118351 Julia Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:02:13 +0000 http://www.designspongeonline.com/?p=37135#comment-118351 I live in Portland and am also hoping to install low-cost rain-barrels in my new home. Where did you get the red pickling barrels? Thanks! I live in Portland and am also hoping to install low-cost rain-barrels in my new home. Where did you get the red pickling barrels? Thanks!

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