Yesterday I planted maybe 5 pepper plants and three eggplant plants. The peppers are jalapeno and hungarian yellow. M bought them at Miller’s, and we still have a lot left — not sure where those are going to go, or even if I want to plant them. There’s only so many hot peppers you can use.
Meanwhile, I’m sitting here watching a thunderstorm roll in. I love t-storms, always have. Looking at the radar, it sure looks like we’re going to get it, but it’s not that dark outside. Wait, now I see that gray wall about a mile away that means it’s about to pour.
Which will fill up my rain barrels, assuming my distribution manifold works correctly (I need to come up with a better design that isn’t dependent on the slope of the thing). That’s about 250 gallons.
In the summer. What about in the winter? The need for water doesn’t go away in the winter.
Well, one thing I did a couple of days ago is put a 5-gallon bucket under the condensate pump outlet from the furnace/air conditioner. But that’s a drop in the bucket…so to speak. And doesn’t happen without electricity.
That’s something I need to think about. The basement would be the obvious place for water storage, but how to get water from rain/snow to that storage in the winter?
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