I'm sad to see so many critical comments. Thank you for sharing your creative solution which you obviously put a great deal of thought into & which works so beautifully for your particular geological situation. It definitely encourages me to find a custom solution to my own watering issues. Thank you for cleverly salvaging what would end up in a landfill. Thank you for helping nature be natural. You are an inspiration! :)
I havent even watched yet, only saw the picture in the thumb nail. Brilliant idea. One i will definitively show to my husband. I believe this would be a great solution even if temporary. Makes it much nicer around/near the house among garden beds.
@@maritimegardening4887 back in late 96 to mid 98 I attended a UK agricultural college and they did pretty much the same thing 😁 in fact the college had a smallholding type experimental farm and they had rainwater harvesting into a small duck and fish pond, the "muck" from the bottom of your pond will eventually be better than any store bought fertilizer or compost accelerator. Keep up with the common sense 😁
I would get the biggest kick out of you putting an old bicycle next to that pond and have it pump the water out while you pedal the bike. That would be the best. lol ~ Just keep being you because the world is better for it!
I love how amused with yourself you are about this. I get that way too when a project works out 😂 that enthusiasm is contagious and leads to more innovation. Keep it up!
@@wascalywabbit right! I have a garbage can under the AC DRIP I use it to water my plants in pots. I never thought about hooking up a hose though to water a tree.
@@jennyanimal9046 you know,an auto siphon would be great for this.. Towards the top,i would put a small hole in the side,put a 3/8th hose in the bottom out the top hole,raise up the bucket about 12" off the ground and run the hose a few inches underground to a plant you wish to water every couple days or so depending in bucket size
Just what I needed to see! I rent a duplex with a downspout. I have a large yard and I bought a rain barrel. Unfortunately I got it right at the end of the huge rain season. We still get rain but not much. Because I’m a renter I don’t want to install an extender or anything. This is perfect. I can just put the other end of the hose in the rain barrel. Thanks!
A brilliant idea!! Have implemented it just now…yes…in the pouring rain and it’s working a treat. Finally a diy ultra simple no cost solution to a massive problem :)) motivated to dig a pond next 😁
@@maritimegardening4887 Thank you for the nugget to get "muck" from a nearby lake floor!! I'm hoping a reservoir would work as well? It's absolutely AMAZING that from that muck, species are born and even foliage will grow??!! God is SO AMAZING!! Thank you again for ALL you do!!
@@joyannkjb4l250 careful... make sure whatever reservoir you are taking from isn't going to create any legality issues for yourself. Otherwise rock on 🤘😁👩🌾
I did this some years ago. I also piped the water from the sump pump pit into the same small pond. The water draws all types of wildlife. The outflow from the small pond provides a habitat for wet soil type plants. Good idea.
What a fantastic idea!! I'm already thinking about where and how I can use it around my house and garden. We get lots of rain in the Scottish Borders, I'm thinking if the container or pool gets full, just slip the water jug off the spout and wait until you need it again! Brilliant! My house is lower than the garden but we have a stone barn that needs new gutters, I'll do it on that. Worth mentioning, here in the UK lots of old houses have iron gutters and downpipes, I worried about how I could get a rainbarrel under one without hiring someone. The plastic bottle solves that!
You should consider installing a solar water pump! Edible Acres’ most recent video shows how to do it really easily and for cheap. He slowly pumps the water up to a reservoir/ feeding bin that is easy to dip a can into. Hope this helps!
Well that is pretty cool Greg! My garden is slightly uphill from my house...but...I collect rain water from my garden shed and a workshop I have beside the garden. I much prefer to use my collected rainwater to water with. I too have a well but being cheap I try not to use it for watering because it does use electricity which does cost. Plus you are right rain water is better. We had our first real good spring rain a few days ago and again last night so the garden will be happy about that! Have a great day and pretty clever Idea! Mike 🇨🇦🍁
Love it. I use 2li pop bottles to let rainwater from the gutter into my water gathering drums. Very crude. Someday I will make something sophisticated like you. I also pick up thrown away hoses... mostly to someday water a bed with it or distribute water through my garden.
Duuude! This is a fantastic, genius idea! I'm going to set this up at my elderly mother's house where she recently had a new roof and rain gutters installed. so cool. Subbed!
Clever,thankyou Your neighbor had a great idea....and i can imagine you can run that hose anywhere when it rains...indoor tubs etc... for us city ppl. may come in handy
Great idea. People just need to be aware of that run off on the roof does include roofing material (eg the shingle particles)as well as whatever gunk has been collecting up there prior to the rain feeling it a general washing off. Other than that it's a great idea to somehow figure out a way to use that water for your yard or garden without necessarily investing in a rain barrel system Also not just your pond water, but people's home aquariums with their goldfish inside the house , is also good for watering plants. So in my case since I pretty much have to change out several gallons every week for the aquarium I just use that to water my plants instead of dumping it down the drain.
Way cool! I just sent this to my big brother whobhas a big yard with lots of plants and a goldfish pond!! I'm sure he's going to love this idea! Thanks!
Thanks for your videos. Thanks to you I’ve become a gardener myself . All your ideas reflect the way I feel gardening should be experienced. By implementing your ideas Every year my garden gets better. I get to build my soil instead of buying it. All that to say. Thank you! Keep up the good work! Others may not appreciate you but I do. And it’s safe to say… I need you! 😅 Keep them coming!!! ❤❤😊
I love the fact that you're using pond water we do too. I mainly watch your videos to see if you're going to go out on a tangent. I'm easily amused. Stay dirty my friend. I appreciate your time putting out all your wonderful videos.
Water flows under our house. we dug up a spot in the basement and attached a sump pump that pumps the water into barrels. We need to fix our gutters and this might be a useful trick for us to remember. We want to set up a pond thing in the garden to collect water for garden use. as it stands the water we've been using is strictly from this sump.
I have tree rain barrels with hoses (about 60') in the ground running to my garden attached to soaker hoses. I poked holes in regular soaker hoses for gravity feed. I just turn on spigots to water.
I agree Marion. If this RUclipsr is willing to run a hose from the house to the garden, why not hook it to a rain barrel with a turn on/off faucet attachment? So much more convenient. Unless he secures the plastic bottle more securely to the downspout than shown or described, he will find it detached from the force of a heavy rain.
You can drill a hole and put a spigot in the barrel and have the same effect and not have to worry about huge algae blooms i just use big black bags to cover my barrels
WOW!!! I was just thinking about rain collection yesterday. This is genius. And I enjoy the tangent journeys- so many little nuggets of knowledge there.
Sorry to be a negative Nancy...but there's no way a hose that small can support enough volumetric flow rate when you get a decent rainstorm. My rain barrel overflows are size at 2" in diameter for a good reason. I would just suggest connecting something larger in diameter (like trenching a PVC pipe). FWIW if you have enough height difference on your property, you can use gravity to drain a rain barrel with a 100' hose, probably a lot more if you have a 1" or larger hose diameter. However, you are right that they're not convenient for larger yards 👍
You could get a solar powered pond pump to get the water out of the pond. Love this idea. We have the perfect place to use this set up Thanks for sharing
Nice! Unfortunately most my few plants I have growing are uphill from my house. So I recently put in a collection system (maybe 100 gal) and bought a second hand solar fountain pump for $30. Working on seeing how useful the pump will be other than to circulate water for my goldfish in my rain barrels. lol
Thanks for your videos! That is a really good idea. It’s too hot and dry where I live to do that but it’s awesome that works for you! Your voice is very calming, I watched a lot of your videos after my cat was killed. Very soothing. Thanks for doing what you do.
Mike Jones same here, my a/c unit water comes out of a pipe by my front porch, which I put a bucket under. Maybe I will try to use his idea of a bottle/hose so I don't have to keep emptying the bucket onto my plants!
I had the same idea, but wasn't sure how to connect something to the downspout. I currently just have one of those diverters that you lay down on the ground. I'm going to run out and get myself a bottle of juice haha and try that. I'll run the hose alone the side of the back porch, under the step and continue to the other side of the yard where my garden is.
You do know they make rain barrels with a spigot on the bottom that you can attach a water hose to. it stores the water in the rain barrel for you and then you can put the water wherever you want. it would do the same thing and you'd have water stored close to the house and still be able to put it into your pond or any other larger water container. Though this is a more cost-effective method I have to say.
I just saw an old video where you mentioned you make soup at the end of every week to use up all the extra veggies you have left to use. Is there a whole video on this, or could you do one? And just more generally about how you plan your meals/techniques for being more efficient w/ food. Been loving the cooking videos too.
He can put a bilge pump in the pond hook a hose to it. Hook the pump to a 12 volt battery and water his plants. No hauling water. Plus hook solar panels to charge battery. That's how we do it.
If you care about your fish, then give them a place with some thermal mass (that big rock might do) to protect them from sudden temperature changes if you get a lot of rain water flowing into the pond. We just got a heavy rain, about 4 inches overnight, and something about it killed half the catfish in my pond, I think it was the sudden temperature change. The goldfish in my rain barrels will go into shock from the cold water flowing in and then they can be washed out of the rain barrel, but I put in some large stones in the bottom for them to go under and that saves them from this happening.
I would use a fist aquarium cleaning pump to siphon water out and attach more hoses to other side to water gardens....love this idea of the fish pond. Thank you.
Hi my name is David Purdy I live in Dartmouth NS I have watched everything you have put out it's because off you why I got into gardening and so grateful I did the only problem I have is work I fish for a living and during garden season we travel to glace Bay cape Breton to snow crab in March early April we finish that season in August but we travel back and forth to home so I have been gardening for say this is the third year I get so much enjoyedment peace of mind and of course the feeling I experience ingrowing my own food successfully not with everything I grow or at least try but don't bother me if I fail that's from watching your videos other videos I watch there is so much perfection that at first I thought about giving up because I was not getting no where the same results so thought hey maybe it's not for me but following you I see that not every thing works out and what works for you may not work for me so that's why I didn't give up so I don't have alot of Yard but have several raised beds which is all organic material I see how important it is for mulching were I can't be there as much as I like to be. So make a long story come to a end I would love to thank you for your work and great videos that I have learned from and experiment with I have so many questions to ask but don't want to take up your hole day I will be continuing watching your new releases and I will reach out to you again when I start to see some production I was going to plant today my lettuce carrots beats kale and spinach but unfortunately they are calling for a Storm so I will have to wait till another day. Again thank you from myself and family and like they say your own food to grocery store is no comparison
Hey thanks man! Great to hear that you're continuing to try despite having some things go wrong sometimes. And yes, it's especially a challenge when you're away a lot. You know, I wrote an article on my substack page about this very topic - so maybe that might help. Here a link: maritimegardening.substack.com/p/what-to-plant-for-the-absentee-gardener.
A rain barrel is good idea because you have a source of clean water to use in case of emergency..You might want to boil the water to drink or cook with though.
i have a barrel , with a sump pump , witch pumps the water to my garden , where i have a cheap swimmingpool ( 100 $) . so i have 8000 L (2500 gal) rainwater in my garden.
That will back up the down pine and flood your eves in a mild storm, the way to do it is use some pipe the same diameter as your down pipe to redirect it anywhere.
Thanks for sharing! May be what you need to get the water out of the pond is a Shaduf, ancient Egyptian technology! You’ve got lots of poles hanging around and it would be a very satisfying build.
Since any rain past a drip will not be able to run through the hose it can give you moisture problems and may cause flooding in the house a rain barrel will give you more water volume as the barrel fills up the pressure at the bottom where the hose bib is put causes more water to be forced through the hose and which the rain has stopped the barrel will empty out to the pond ready for the next rain for less work in installing a tap in the bottom of the barrel just open one of the 3/4 inch threaded opening in the bung turn the barrel upside down put a hole for the bottom for the down spout
All good ideas. For me, not a problem if the rain overflows, the driveway is graded to take away from the house. That said, I'm constantly amazed at how much rain it can keep up with. I think with all that hose length, a vacuum gets created that "sucks" the water into the hose
I counted approximately 40 paces from the "Head Bobbling" on the camera. At a standard 30" MilSpec pace, that's roughly 100 feet. For those that like "Easy Cheat" math, two paces turns out to be 5 feet. Two paces is 60 inches, divide by 12, equals 5 feet. I start stepping left foot first (Former US Military confirmed), and every time my Right Foot Hits The Ground... That's 5 feet.
Thanks for sharing, it's all actually very interesting as all things are somehow connected, the fish waste, the rain water collection, the different creatures in the pond, and even the recycling of the hose, which I do too, great way of living. Do you have to do any maintenance or cleaning on the pond?
Good setup. Unfortunately my garden is uphill from the house and I don't have a pond. Other than a few buckets I have sitting around my garden, I usually end up watering with chlorinated city water but not sure what else to do. Maybe get a rain barrel to at least collect more water in the garden.
What a great idea!! And good tip on saving hoses that have a small hole. What do you use to seal the hole if you need to? Electrical tape or even duct tape is too weak under water pressure.
An excellent idea if you can figure out how to filter it out of desperation and drink it. The water coming out is the humidity that's in the house. Same Principle as a dehumidifier
It works…. But maybe better, put a $50 pump in the rain barrel or large rolling trash can with a hose connected - pressurized just like the tap. Basically, you just are using the little pond as a collection vessel. I collect rainwater off an old tilting umbrella or a tarp connected to two tall posts and draped to flow into a Rubbermaid rolling trashcan. It’s protected from the sun by the umbrella to keep it as cool as possible, agitated for oxygen and tested within TDS monitor ($20) to make sure it stays as pure as possible - around 4-6 ppm and the pH is around 6 before adding fertilizer. This is okay, but it has to be tested with pH strips or monitor after adding fertilizer to make sure it’s at the right pH for the potted plants you are using it on at that time. Native soil especially rich in compost typically adjusts on its own though you need to test your soil every year or two (check your local county extension office for $10 tests) to make sure your soil remains in the right pH for that particular group of plants. You collect the soil as directed (a good collection makes a difference in results), fill out the document for what you are growing in that area for that sample. They send you results back and as to what needs to be added. Keep in mind, roofs have a lot of bacteria from tree debris, bat, squirrel, raccoon. Bird poop. If it’s lower than surrounding land, it may collect chemicals from your neighbors or even your own yard. But also pond water as the pros know, promotes root diseases. Look up Phytophthora and Pythium to start with. These can stay in the soil and cause disease issues from year to year. Most growers that use pond or reservoir water - run it through filtration and UV to kill the bacteria, it’s not easy and plants need treatment with specialty fungicides. Rain water, fresh, is tremendous. I have seen the popping of roots overnight from receiving fresh rain showers in my orchids. At least once a month, I try to get them out in the rain. And one of the reasons for using rain water, to have pure water, no minerals, chlorine, fluoride, chloramines etc - well water can be highly mineralized which raises the alkalinity beyond what’s good for plants. It can also have runoff chemicals (herbicides, pesticides, excess fertilizers, oil and gas spills, nearby garbage dumps, and nasty bacteria which is why some shallow wells end up banned for human use. Depending on where you are located, ground water can be quite contaminated - in those cases, county health departments close those wells for drinking purposes. They say it can be used for livestock or irrigation. But if not good for us in terms of disease, it’s not good for your veggies or your livestock either on a regular basis. Deep wells are usually deep enough (several hundred feet) where water has perked through sand, rock etc that helps clean the water. Or if you have to shock your well with chlorine or other additives due to bacteria - you lose the “pure” water benefit. Rainwater may capture nitrogen, but it’s very small and that’s usually during high electrical storms and when fresh. On the pond, unless very deep, and an oxygenator going all the time - it warms up in the sun to the point of feeling warm to our 98.6F body temps. And if you tested the water, you would find it very deficient in oxygen at those times. Those big aerators going in collection ponds, or even fishing ponds and lakes is because they aren’t deep enough to allow fish etc to go deep enough to stay in more oxygen rich water. Many people thinks it’s suppose to be decorative - it may be but it’s real reason is oxygen. In hot summer, if the water isn’t able to cool off at night or be shaded around the edges, or have deep ruts - you will have fish kills. On the hoses, sometimes it’s just a water or new ends that are needed. I like to use them to fill in between soaker hose sections so you don’t waste water where you don’t need it. I also bury my soaker hose in beds with mulch in a 3-4” deep trench. This way the water doesn’t evaporate, or spray on the underside of leaves or crowns of plants causing disease, and it’s down where the roots are - really 5-6 inches is best if you can dig a whole trench through your beds. I live to work the beds, doing green manures/cover crops for a couple of seasons, then trench and lay the soaker hose utilizing irrigation flags so you know where it is or cover after planting. I wrap the hose with filter cloth so it’s less likely to clog the holes. For old (unknown) hoses, I suggest soaking and drawing a solution of Physan20 (fungicide, viruscide, bactericide, algaecide through a hose you don’t know what’s been in it to try and eliminate bad stuff. It’s easy, after soaking, and use a large tub or 5 gal bucket of solution, start a siphon and then let it sit with solution inside the hose. Check the physan20 website, look for applications - but 1 tablespoon per gallon is a good solution and let it soak for 10-15 minutes. But I’d read the site just to be sure, or send them an email. They are good to work with. It’s good to do this with your hoses period on a regular basis - especially if drawing up pond water. The active ingredient is what’s used for sanitation in hospitals, restaurants, greenhouses, food processing - as directed at the proper dilution. It is safe for cleaning bird baths to stop the transmission of bird diseases etc HOWEVER and this is a biggie…do not discharge to the sewer, lake, creek, pond etc - it will kill fish. Dilute it down to a useable solution and pour over plants to help with mildew, and diseases. I use it on my orchids, it’s used on ornamentals and for disinfecting pots, cutting tools, etc (after removing visible dirt). I even mop my kitchen and bathroom floors with it. If you or you have family that smokes, and they work in your garden or Greenhouse - use it after washing your hands with soap and water - keep a bucket handy to dip and keep hands wet with the solution to help with tobacco mosaic virus. It spreads from smokers hands from the tobacco in the cigarettes.
hi Greg good idea it works. i noticed when you swung the camera back to show where the pressure hose is you've got a bit of elevation. do you think you've got enough to run a hose from the front of the roof to a barrel in the garden [or a kids pool]. it would be even closer. just a thought
I agree with you I think it's not so smart to have the water barrels up against your house cuz if they get full then they overflow right up against your house... Obviously if we've had a lot of rain I don't need to take water from the rain barrel to water my garden.
Brilliant! I'm going to try that. I am curious about mowing. I have some acreage and do a lot of mowing so I guess you just have to move the hose every time you mow?
The areas under our downspouts have good sun and afternoon shade, so they are planting areas, strawberries, radishes, etc. Oh, get a mineral test of the leaf gutter dirt and compare it to the mineral content of rockdust, the results are very interesting~
The tar in shingles leeches chemicals that are very very bad. I'm not sure what the ceramic coating on the shingle grit contains, it would depend on the color.
Interesting idea. However, this bottle and hose system would only work if the bottom of the downspout is higher elevation than the pond, and if there isn't a deluge of water coming off the roof.
I would put the rain in a barrel, run the hose to the garden, use drip hoses in the garden. Have an on/off faucet on the lower part of the barrel...AND fill in the mosquito breeder.
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I'm sad to see so many critical comments. Thank you for sharing your creative solution which you obviously put a great deal of thought into & which works so beautifully for your particular geological situation. It definitely encourages me to find a custom solution to my own watering issues. Thank you for cleverly salvaging what would end up in a landfill. Thank you for helping nature be natural. You are an inspiration! :)
Thank you very much!
@@maritimegardening4887 Haters have nothing better to do, therefore, deflect!
I havent even watched yet, only saw the picture in the thumb nail. Brilliant idea. One i will definitively show to my husband. I believe this would be a great solution even if temporary. Makes it much nicer around/near the house among garden beds.
@@maritimegardening4887 back in late 96 to mid 98 I attended a UK agricultural college and they did pretty much the same thing 😁 in fact the college had a smallholding type experimental farm and they had rainwater harvesting into a small duck and fish pond, the "muck" from the bottom of your pond will eventually be better than any store bought fertilizer or compost accelerator. Keep up with the common sense 😁
i realize I am quite randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to watch new series online?
"I chose the pond because this is where the pond wanted to be.' Subtly brilliant
I would get the biggest kick out of you putting an old bicycle next to that pond and have it pump the water out while you pedal the bike. That would be the best. lol ~ Just keep being you because the world is better for it!
I like it!
I love how amused with yourself you are about this. I get that way too when a project works out 😂 that enthusiasm is contagious and leads to more innovation. Keep it up!
So true!
Genius, I mean, genius idea! You're always gifting us with great ways and great ideas to make gardening better. Thanks so much. I love ponds!
Happy to help!
This makes me think capturing rainwater is much easier than more hightech versions make it seem.
My AC UNIT CREATES SO MUCH WATER OUTSIDE IM GOING TO USE THIS METHOD TO WATER MY TREES IN SUMMER.
Mine too I catch them in buckets.
@@msdramamusic me too!😊
I've used ac water for years
@@wascalywabbit right! I have a garbage can under the AC DRIP I use it to water my plants in pots. I never thought about hooking up a hose though to water a tree.
@@jennyanimal9046 you know,an auto siphon would be great for this.. Towards the top,i would put a small hole in the side,put a 3/8th hose in the bottom out the top hole,raise up the bucket about 12" off the ground and run the hose a few inches underground to a plant you wish to water every couple days or so depending in bucket size
Just what I needed to see! I rent a duplex with a downspout. I have a large yard and I bought a rain barrel. Unfortunately I got it right at the end of the huge rain season. We still get rain but not much. Because I’m a renter I don’t want to install an extender or anything. This is perfect. I can just put the other end of the hose in the rain barrel. Thanks!
A brilliant idea!! Have implemented it just now…yes…in the pouring rain and it’s working a treat. Finally a diy ultra simple no cost solution to a massive problem :)) motivated to dig a pond next 😁
Have fun!
I'm motivated to dig a pond next Spring myself!!
And I'll be getting some "muck" from the reservoir down the road!!!! 😉👍
@@maritimegardening4887 Thank you for the nugget to get "muck" from a nearby lake floor!! I'm hoping a reservoir would work as well? It's absolutely AMAZING that from that muck, species are born and even foliage will grow??!! God is SO AMAZING!!
Thank you again for ALL you do!!
@@joyannkjb4l250 careful... make sure whatever reservoir you are taking from isn't going to create any legality issues for yourself. Otherwise rock on 🤘😁👩🌾
The path of least resistance...Abraham Hicks...I absolutely love it!
I did this some years ago. I also piped the water from the sump pump pit into the same small pond.
The water draws all types of wildlife. The outflow from the small pond provides a habitat for wet soil type plants.
Good idea.
What a fantastic idea!! I'm already thinking about where and how I can use it around my house and garden. We get lots of rain in the Scottish Borders, I'm thinking if the container or pool gets full, just slip the water jug off the spout and wait until you need it again! Brilliant! My house is lower than the garden but we have a stone barn that needs new gutters, I'll do it on that. Worth mentioning, here in the UK lots of old houses have iron gutters and downpipes, I worried about how I could get a rainbarrel under one without hiring someone. The plastic bottle solves that!
That's a great point - iron gutters aren't so easy to modify :)
You always have good,simple and practical ideas that anyone can use. 👍🏼
You should consider installing a solar water pump! Edible Acres’ most recent video shows how to do it really easily and for cheap. He slowly pumps the water up to a reservoir/ feeding bin that is easy to dip a can into. Hope this helps!
Thank you! He has two videos on it and they are awesome!
Do you a video on how you made the pond?
Well that is pretty cool Greg!
My garden is slightly uphill from my house...but...I collect rain water from my garden shed and a workshop I have beside the garden. I much prefer to use my collected rainwater to water with. I too have a well but being cheap I try not to use it for watering because it does use electricity which does cost.
Plus you are right rain water is better.
We had our first real good spring rain a few days ago and again last night so the garden will be happy about that!
Have a great day and pretty clever Idea!
Mike 🇨🇦🍁
Love it. I use 2li pop bottles to let rainwater from the gutter into my water gathering drums. Very crude. Someday I will make something sophisticated like you. I also pick up thrown away hoses... mostly to someday water a bed with it or distribute water through my garden.
Duuude! This is a fantastic, genius idea! I'm going to set this up at my elderly mother's house where she recently had a new roof and rain gutters installed. so cool. Subbed!
Sounds great!
Clever,thankyou
Your neighbor had a great idea....and i can imagine you can run that hose anywhere when it rains...indoor tubs etc... for us city ppl. may come in handy
Absolutely
Great idea.
People just need to be aware of that run off on the roof does include roofing material (eg the shingle particles)as well as whatever gunk has been collecting up there prior to the rain feeling it a general washing off.
Other than that it's a great idea to somehow figure out a way to use that water for your yard or garden without necessarily investing in a rain barrel system
Also not just your pond water, but people's home aquariums with their goldfish inside the house , is also good for watering plants.
So in my case since I pretty much have to change out several gallons every week for the aquarium I just use that to water my plants instead of dumping it down the drain.
Way cool! I just sent this to my big brother whobhas a big yard with lots of plants and a goldfish pond!! I'm sure he's going to love this idea! Thanks!
Please do!
Thanks for your videos. Thanks to you I’ve become a gardener myself . All your ideas reflect the way I feel gardening should be experienced.
By implementing your ideas Every year my garden gets better. I get to build my soil instead of buying it. All that to say. Thank you! Keep up the good work! Others may not appreciate you but I do. And it’s safe to say… I need you! 😅
Keep them coming!!! ❤❤😊
Thank you J.O. - I hope your garden is wonderful this year :)
I love the fact that you're using pond water we do too. I mainly watch your videos to see if you're going to go out on a tangent. I'm easily amused. Stay dirty my friend. I appreciate your time putting out all your wonderful videos.
Half my content is tangents :)
Water flows under our house. we dug up a spot in the basement and attached a sump pump that pumps the water into barrels. We need to fix our gutters and this might be a useful trick for us to remember. We want to set up a pond thing in the garden to collect water for garden use. as it stands the water we've been using is strictly from this sump.
Great idea. Yes, put things where they want to be put.
I have tree rain barrels with hoses (about 60') in the ground running to my garden attached to soaker hoses. I poked holes in regular soaker hoses for gravity feed. I just turn on spigots to water.
I agree Marion. If this RUclipsr is willing to run a hose from the house to the garden, why not hook it to a rain barrel with a turn on/off faucet attachment? So much more convenient. Unless he secures the plastic bottle more securely to the downspout than shown or described, he will find it detached from the force of a heavy rain.
@@garykoblitz4932 that was kinda my thats too
You can drill a hole and put a spigot in the barrel and have the same effect and not have to worry about huge algae blooms i just use big black bags to cover my barrels
But then you need a barrel..
WOW!!! I was just thinking about rain collection yesterday. This is genius. And I enjoy the tangent journeys- so many little nuggets of knowledge there.
Wonderful! Enjoy!
Great idea. l love that the hose was someone else's garbage.
Some people don’t know how easy it is to patch a hose.
@@DovidM I got a roll of stretchy tape from the dollar store..
Thank you for the bottle idea. I will use it in a few places in my house.
Love the underground hose. I need to do this out to my garden.
I agree, that is great water to use. Fish poop alone. 👍🏻
This is a great idea! Thank you for sharing-I have rain barrels, but I could do this on the other side of house.
Awesome dumpster diving technique! Serves the purpose without cutting into the home budget.
Absolutely!
Sorry to be a negative Nancy...but there's no way a hose that small can support enough volumetric flow rate when you get a decent rainstorm. My rain barrel overflows are size at 2" in diameter for a good reason. I would just suggest connecting something larger in diameter (like trenching a PVC pipe). FWIW if you have enough height difference on your property, you can use gravity to drain a rain barrel with a 100' hose, probably a lot more if you have a 1" or larger hose diameter. However, you are right that they're not convenient for larger yards 👍
A decent rainstorm may cause it to overflow - which is fine. I'm not digging a 50 yard across my lawn to lay PVC pipe :)
That would back up during our frequent heavy downpours. It's an okay idea depending on where you live.
Or how much roof area the downspout drains
Then, if you get lots of rain water, you could then use a wider duct, such as pvc pipe, the principle is the same
Perfect for Southern California
I really like this rain harvesting hack!
You could get a solar powered pond pump to get the water out of the pond. Love this idea. We have the perfect place to use this set up
Thanks for sharing
That's a great idea!
Nice! Unfortunately most my few plants I have growing are uphill from my house. So I recently put in a collection system (maybe 100 gal) and bought a second hand solar fountain pump for $30. Working on seeing how useful the pump will be other than to circulate water for my goldfish in my rain barrels. lol
Thanks for your videos! That is a really good idea. It’s too hot and dry where I live to do that but it’s awesome that works for you! Your voice is very calming, I watched a lot of your videos after my cat was killed. Very soothing. Thanks for doing what you do.
Thanks - sorry to hear about your cat
I put bucket under my AC unit. I’ve been doing this for years. I use it to water plants. 👍🏾
That's a great idea!
Mike Jones same here, my a/c unit water comes out of a pipe by my front porch, which I put a bucket under. Maybe I will try to use his idea of a bottle/hose so I don't have to keep emptying the bucket onto my plants!
I had the same idea, but wasn't sure how to connect something to the downspout. I currently just have one of those diverters that you lay down on the ground. I'm going to run out and get myself a bottle of juice haha and try that. I'll run the hose alone the side of the back porch, under the step and continue to the other side of the yard where my garden is.
Thank you so much that is ideal because the piece that I bought kept falling off and blowing away in the wind!
Wow! I'm gonna use that idea to get water to my greenhouse which is maybe 12 feet from the house. Thanks!
Good luck!
You do know they make rain barrels with a spigot on the bottom that you can attach a water hose to. it stores the water in the rain barrel for you and then you can put the water wherever you want. it would do the same thing and you'd have water stored close to the house and still be able to put it into your pond or any other larger water container. Though this is a more cost-effective method I have to say.
Or just by an adapter from Amazon. Spigot n bunghole cutter
@@jeromeduffy9270 why?
@@iyaharris1171 Get a repurposed plastic barrel. Food industry resells them. 15 or 20 dollars here. Then Amazon for parts 25 dollars total
I see no advantage to having roof water go into a hole in the ground.
I just saw an old video where you mentioned you make soup at the end of every week to use up all the extra veggies you have left to use. Is there a whole video on this, or could you do one? And just more generally about how you plan your meals/techniques for being more efficient w/ food. Been loving the cooking videos too.
Thanks - I have no video on this but I will add it to my list of things to do! Thanks for the suggestion!
We get some pretty intense storms in Alberta ; I have a 1000 L rain barrel that was filled in under 10 min
You gave me another idea to store water.i have a downhill area where i can dig a hole for it. In my case, my driveway collects it.
good idea!
Now that is what I have been looking for. Thank you for posting!
He can put a bilge pump in the pond hook a hose to it. Hook the pump to a 12 volt battery and water his plants. No hauling water. Plus hook solar panels to charge battery. That's how we do it.
If you care about your fish, then give them a place with some thermal mass (that big rock might do) to protect them from sudden temperature changes if you get a lot of rain water flowing into the pond. We just got a heavy rain, about 4 inches overnight, and something about it killed half the catfish in my pond, I think it was the sudden temperature change. The goldfish in my rain barrels will go into shock from the cold water flowing in and then they can be washed out of the rain barrel, but I put in some large stones in the bottom for them to go under and that saves them from this happening.
The water temp is more stable in a hole dug in the ground
Hello Greg, Another great idea! Much appreciated.👍🏼😉
I would use a fist aquarium cleaning pump to siphon water out and attach more hoses to other side to water gardens....love this idea of the fish pond. Thank you.
Great idea
So glad I clicked on this. Genius!!!!!
Very nice of you to do your bit for nature..
I try
Hi my name is David Purdy I live in Dartmouth NS I have watched everything you have put out it's because off you why I got into gardening and so grateful I did the only problem I have is work I fish for a living and during garden season we travel to glace Bay cape Breton to snow crab in March early April we finish that season in August but we travel back and forth to home so I have been gardening for say this is the third year I get so much enjoyedment peace of mind and of course the feeling I experience ingrowing my own food successfully not with everything I grow or at least try but don't bother me if I fail that's from watching your videos other videos I watch there is so much perfection that at first I thought about giving up because I was not getting no where the same results so thought hey maybe it's not for me but following you I see that not every thing works out and what works for you may not work for me so that's why I didn't give up so I don't have alot of Yard but have several raised beds which is all organic material I see how important it is for mulching were I can't be there as much as I like to be. So make a long story come to a end I would love to thank you for your work and great videos that I have learned from and experiment with I have so many questions to ask but don't want to take up your hole day I will be continuing watching your new releases and I will reach out to you again when I start to see some production I was going to plant today my lettuce carrots beats kale and spinach but unfortunately they are calling for a Storm so I will have to wait till another day. Again thank you from myself and family and like they say your own food to grocery store is no comparison
Hey thanks man! Great to hear that you're continuing to try despite having some things go wrong sometimes. And yes, it's especially a challenge when you're away a lot. You know, I wrote an article on my substack page about this very topic - so maybe that might help. Here a link:
maritimegardening.substack.com/p/what-to-plant-for-the-absentee-gardener.
A rain barrel is good idea because you have a source of clean water to use in case of emergency..You might want to boil the water to drink or cook with though.
Wow... fantastic... you could make hoses different lengths to fill up more than 1 pond if 1 is full.
Great idea
i have a barrel , with a sump pump , witch pumps the water to my garden , where i have a cheap swimmingpool ( 100 $) . so i have 8000 L (2500 gal) rainwater in my garden.
i only need 1 thunderstorm for it to fill.
2500 gal pool for $100?!
@@eyewokeupinhell marketplace : second hand
That will back up the down pine and flood your eves in a mild storm, the way to do it is use some pipe the same diameter as your down pipe to redirect it anywhere.
It will just overflow - which is fine, the driveway is designed to take the water away
I think that can work to stop my backyard from flooding and put water where I need it most .
Dig a hole and water the hole with excess water
Very smart guy . Reduce reuse and recycle ♻️. I commend the idea 💡
Wow, this just gave me an idea that would really help me !!
Thanks so much.
No problem!
Thanks for sharing! May be what you need to get the water out of the pond is a Shaduf, ancient Egyptian technology! You’ve got lots of poles hanging around and it would be a very satisfying build.
Good idea - I'll check out how to make a Shaduf
Goldfish "using the bathroom" 😂🤣😂🤣
BTW. I really like this idea. I have spouting from my shed roof I could try it with 👍
Go for it!
Since any rain past a drip will not be able to run through the hose it can give you moisture problems and may cause flooding in the house a rain barrel will give you more water volume as the barrel fills up the pressure at the bottom where the hose bib is put causes more water to be forced through the hose and which the rain has stopped the barrel will empty out to the pond ready for the next rain for less work in installing a tap in the bottom of the barrel just open one of the 3/4 inch threaded opening in the bung turn the barrel upside down put a hole for the bottom for the down spout
All good ideas. For me, not a problem if the rain overflows, the driveway is graded to take away from the house. That said, I'm constantly amazed at how much rain it can keep up with. I think with all that hose length, a vacuum gets created that "sucks" the water into the hose
I counted approximately 40 paces from the "Head Bobbling" on the camera. At a standard 30" MilSpec pace, that's roughly 100 feet.
For those that like "Easy Cheat" math, two paces turns out to be 5 feet. Two paces is 60 inches, divide by 12, equals 5 feet.
I start stepping left foot first (Former US Military confirmed), and every time my Right Foot Hits The Ground...
That's 5 feet.
I'm 6'4" - so you'll probably have to adjust your math to account for that :)
I took an engineering class where we (students) had to count our paces between two specific locations. My pace turned out to be 2.00 ft.
Something tells me in a few years that pond will be inside the garden. Expansion seems to be a constant in your garden.
I do seem to have that habit don't I :)
Love the entire video! Thank you for giving me ideas I never even thought about.
You are so welcome!
Very clever but so simple thanks for sharing
You’re welcome 😊
Every drop counts! Bravo!
Hey Greg, thanks for another great video. I'd love for you to do a video on how to fix a garden hose. Thanks, Jess
great idea - I've fixed a lot of them so I suppose I should have filmed that
Good idea. I'd add one of those cheap plastic down spout filters first, to catch leaves and debris. Like $5 or something.
That's a good idea otherwise I'd clog up my hose
Great job thinking out of the box! Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
So many good ideas in this short video. Thanks!
Glad you like them!
This is excellent idea😆 I'm going to make one for my garden😆 Thank you so much!
You're welcome 😊
This is the solution we needed thank you!
Love it, just please be sure to use a hose that is drinking water safe! Like the TV ones, the rest contain very levels of lead and other toxins!
Thanks for sharing, it's all actually very interesting as all things are somehow connected, the fish waste, the rain water collection, the different creatures in the pond, and even the recycling of the hose, which I do too, great way of living. Do you have to do any maintenance or cleaning on the pond?
No - it just seems to take care of itself
I like this idea, recycle used hoses & collect rain water
Nice idea, i will try that for my garden 👍
Good setup. Unfortunately my garden is uphill from the house and I don't have a pond. Other than a few buckets I have sitting around my garden, I usually end up watering with chlorinated city water but not sure what else to do. Maybe get a rain barrel to at least collect more water in the garden.
Try a plastic garden pond. Often for sale on kijiji.
I suppose a rainbarrel and a pump to get the water up to your garden is an option, but I'm not sure if it's worth it.
What a great idea!! And good tip on saving hoses that have a small hole. What do you use to seal the hole if you need to? Electrical tape or even duct tape is too weak under water pressure.
For this hose electrical tape is fine because it's not under pressure. For a hose under pressure you need a splicer.
@@maritimegardening4887 gotcha, thanks!
In the words of Gru from the first Incredible Me movie: “Liiightbulb…”
Ein Regenwassertümpel 🤔 gute Idee 😆👍
Great idea! We’re going to try this!
Great idea! Does the juice container ever overflow? Thx for sharing.
A strong rain will cause it to overflow, but the driveway is designed to direct the water away from the house, so it's no problem.
And agreed. Find the "here" and plant it there. Don't fight the obvious and easy solution for growing stuff.
An excellent idea if you can figure out how to filter it out of desperation and drink it. The water coming out is the humidity that's in the house. Same Principle as a dehumidifier
Why do I need to figure out how to drink it? I have a well for that
@@maritimegardening4887 the term "you" is inclusive. It doesn't mean you specifically. Anyone who does not have a well
How do you keep the pop bottle from falling off the down spout?
It's jammed on there in such a way that it stays put
It works…. But maybe better, put a $50 pump in the rain barrel or large rolling trash can with a hose connected - pressurized just like the tap. Basically, you just are using the little pond as a collection vessel. I collect rainwater off an old tilting umbrella or a tarp connected to two tall posts and draped to flow into a Rubbermaid rolling trashcan. It’s protected from the sun by the umbrella to keep it as cool as possible, agitated for oxygen and tested within TDS monitor ($20) to make sure it stays as pure as possible - around 4-6 ppm and the pH is around 6 before adding fertilizer. This is okay, but it has to be tested with pH strips or monitor after adding fertilizer to make sure it’s at the right pH for the potted plants you are using it on at that time. Native soil especially rich in compost typically adjusts on its own though you need to test your soil every year or two (check your local county extension office for $10 tests) to make sure your soil remains in the right pH for that particular group of plants. You collect the soil as directed (a good collection makes a difference in results), fill out the document for what you are growing in that area for that sample. They send you results back and as to what needs to be added.
Keep in mind, roofs have a lot of bacteria from tree debris, bat, squirrel, raccoon. Bird poop. If it’s lower than surrounding land, it may collect chemicals from your neighbors or even your own yard. But also pond water as the pros know, promotes root diseases. Look up Phytophthora and Pythium to start with. These can stay in the soil and cause disease issues from year to year.
Most growers that use pond or reservoir water - run it through filtration and UV to kill the bacteria, it’s not easy and plants need treatment with specialty fungicides. Rain water, fresh, is tremendous. I have seen the popping of roots overnight from receiving fresh rain showers in my orchids. At least once a month, I try to get them out in the rain.
And one of the reasons for using rain water, to have pure water, no minerals, chlorine, fluoride, chloramines etc - well water can be highly mineralized which raises the alkalinity beyond what’s good for plants. It can also have runoff chemicals (herbicides, pesticides, excess fertilizers, oil and gas spills, nearby garbage dumps, and nasty bacteria which is why some shallow wells end up banned for human use. Depending on where you are located, ground water can be quite contaminated - in those cases, county health departments close those wells for drinking purposes. They say it can be used for livestock or irrigation. But if not good for us in terms of disease, it’s not good for your veggies or your livestock either on a regular basis. Deep wells are usually deep enough (several hundred feet) where water has perked through sand, rock etc that helps clean the water. Or if you have to shock your well with chlorine or other additives due to bacteria - you lose the “pure” water benefit. Rainwater may capture nitrogen, but it’s very small and that’s usually during high electrical storms and when fresh. On the pond, unless very deep, and an oxygenator going all the time - it warms up in the sun to the point of feeling warm to our 98.6F body temps. And if you tested the water, you would find it very deficient in oxygen at those times. Those big aerators going in collection ponds, or even fishing ponds and lakes is because they aren’t deep enough to allow fish etc to go deep enough to stay in more oxygen rich water. Many people thinks it’s suppose to be decorative - it may be but it’s real reason is oxygen. In hot summer, if the water isn’t able to cool off at night or be shaded around the edges, or have deep ruts - you will have fish kills.
On the hoses, sometimes it’s just a water or new ends that are needed. I like to use them to fill in between soaker hose sections so you don’t waste water where you don’t need it. I also bury my soaker hose in beds with mulch in a 3-4” deep trench. This way the water doesn’t evaporate, or spray on the underside of leaves or crowns of plants causing disease, and it’s down where the roots are - really 5-6 inches is best if you can dig a whole trench through your beds. I live to work the beds, doing green manures/cover crops for a couple of seasons, then trench and lay the soaker hose utilizing irrigation flags so you know where it is or cover after planting. I wrap the hose with filter cloth so it’s less likely to clog the holes.
For old (unknown) hoses, I suggest soaking and drawing a solution of Physan20 (fungicide, viruscide, bactericide, algaecide through a hose you don’t know what’s been in it to try and eliminate bad stuff. It’s easy, after soaking, and use a large tub or 5 gal bucket of solution, start a siphon and then let it sit with solution inside the hose. Check the physan20 website, look for applications - but 1 tablespoon per gallon is a good solution and let it soak for 10-15 minutes. But I’d read the site just to be sure, or send them an email. They are good to work with. It’s good to do this with your hoses period on a regular basis - especially if drawing up pond water. The active ingredient is what’s used for sanitation in hospitals, restaurants, greenhouses, food processing - as directed at the proper dilution. It is safe for cleaning bird baths to stop the transmission of bird diseases etc HOWEVER and this is a biggie…do not discharge to the sewer, lake, creek, pond etc - it will kill fish. Dilute it down to a useable solution and pour over plants to help with mildew, and diseases. I use it on my orchids, it’s used on ornamentals and for disinfecting pots, cutting tools, etc (after removing visible dirt). I even mop my kitchen and bathroom floors with it. If you or you have family that smokes, and they work in your garden or Greenhouse - use it after washing your hands with soap and water - keep a bucket handy to dip and keep hands wet with the solution to help with tobacco mosaic virus. It spreads from smokers hands from the tobacco in the cigarettes.
All great advice thanks!
Thank you for sharing a greater idea!
hi Greg good idea it works. i noticed when you swung the camera back to show where the pressure hose is you've got a bit of elevation. do you think you've got enough to run a hose from the front of the roof to a barrel in the garden [or a kids pool]. it would be even closer. just a thought
I think that could probably work - It's something I've been thinking about for sure.
I agree with you I think it's not so smart to have the water barrels up against your house cuz if they get full then they overflow right up against your house... Obviously if we've had a lot of rain I don't need to take water from the rain barrel to water my garden.
Brilliant! I'm going to try that. I am curious about mowing. I have some acreage and do a lot of mowing so I guess you just have to move the hose every time you mow?
Yes - that's a bit annoying and it would be easier long-term to bury the hose.
First I need to add gutters and downspouts to my tiny house.
You can do it. Free from the sky’s , can’t be better.
Did you line the bottom with anything to prevent water loss being absorbed into the soil or no? Is it pretty effective without the liner if so?
It's not lined - the clay is so hard about 2 feet down you need a pickaxe to get into it.
@@maritimegardening4887 that soil sounds like us here in Central Texas!
Water with natural fertilizer. Brilliant.
The areas under our downspouts have good sun and afternoon shade, so they are planting areas, strawberries, radishes, etc. Oh, get a mineral test of the leaf gutter dirt and compare it to the mineral content of rockdust, the results are very interesting~
What's coming off of the shingles? Do we need a toxicology test too?
The tar in shingles leeches chemicals that are very very bad. I'm not sure what the ceramic coating on the shingle grit contains, it would depend on the color.
AYE! I been doing this for years now. I also grab h2o hoses from rubish too!
Interesting idea. However, this bottle and hose system would only work if the bottom of the downspout is higher elevation than the pond, and if there isn't a deluge of water coming off the roof.
It will still work with a deluge, just not with 100% efficiency
I would put the rain in a barrel, run the hose to the garden, use drip hoses in the garden. Have an on/off faucet on the lower part of the barrel...AND fill in the mosquito breeder.
The fish eat all the mosquito larvae