Storing and mulching your way out of drought.

Watering the garden allows for 20-40 per cent of a household’s water use, and typically areas observes some form of water limitation when temperatures soar. However, there’s more to saving water in the garden than reducing your watering. By using Rain collection systems we can reserve water and ensure we don’t get fleeced by our local water provider, for providing their tainted over chlorenated spillage that we have to shell out through the teeth for due to water shortages that are more than likely down to their poor upkeep of piping and mismanagement of water supply.

Water vessels are a fantastic way of storing small quantities of rain for use in household gardens. However, to totally harvest the benefits of the large quantities of water that flows off your roof during a downpour, a expertly designed rainwater collection system needs to be looked at. Rainwater collection systems in the UK are primarily used for WC flushing and for watering the garden. However more sophisticated rainwater collection systems can be used to provide water for domestic appliances. By capturing water it provides for stretches of water scarcity, it lets you maintain vegetables and plants in your garden. You even have the perfect catcher of rain water, just go outside and look at your roof it’s a huge area enabling you to capture the drops that hit it into a large storage unit rainwater has a far greater advantage over tap water. It is one of the cleanest sources of water available providing it is not influenced by where it falls from local industrial pollution.

You can also use basic techniques like mulching grass clippings, leaves, bark or straw etc to form up a layer that will hold the moisture in the soil and in itself (another good motive for using organic substance as a compost in your soil as it increases its water retention. Mulch is like a blanket on the soil. It keeps the soil cool and it reduces evaporation because the soil is not exposed to dry air and drying winds.

Rainwater collection and

Lawn watering systems