Oops
We have a 2600 litre rainwater tank in our backyard.
With all the rain we've had just lately, it's been pretty much full since about late November. We had an electronic timer on it so that at 5:30 pm every afternoon it would water the veges for half an hour. The trouble is, sometimes the batteries would go flat and we wouldn't notice until the strawberries started to look a bit sorry for themselves.
So I took the timer off last week and relied on remembering to turn off the tap whenever it was on. This morning I put a good old fashioned clockwork timer on there, because this morning was when I remembered I'd turned the tap on about 5:30 yesterday afternoon and it was still on.
I hope it rains this week, because we have about 1400 litres of water to replace in the tank.
That's not as bad as a colleague of mine who lives on seven and a half acres near Samford, north of Brisbane. He turned the tap on from one of his tanks sometime last year to fill the horse trough up, then forgot to turn it off when he and the family went to Warwick for the day.
He relies on tank water and had to buy some in to refill the tank. I think he paid about three hundred dollars. You can imagine how pissed off he was when it rained heavily a week after he bought it.
3 comments:
I'll bet your colleague was annoyed. Isn't it always the way - rains just when you don't need it.
Why not use a hand held hose? You won't forget then. - Dave
We use drip irrigation off the tank. There's two reasons for this, 1) We don't have a pump, so it relies on the wait of the water in the tank to get any pressure out of it. If you lift the hose up, no water comes out. 2) drip irrigation lets you put the water right at the base of the plants and so doesn't waste any (unless you forget to turn off the tap):)
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