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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Adding a Rain Capture System to the Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

So one of the things this year that I want to add to the garden is a rain capture system.

0:17.0

Now you've had a quite extensive one put together

0:20.0

across different parts of your yard,

0:21.0

and now that I have the greenhouse,

0:23.2

I finally have like a clean roof,

0:25.2

simple lines that I could pull gutters off of.

0:27.7

And it's actually pretty big.

0:28.7

It's a lot of rainwater coming down.

0:30.3

So I am taking a little page from your book maybe literally from the homesteading book and doing a rain capture like grayish water basin where I'm digging out a huge basin I guess it's not great water great water is just rain water But I'm digging out a basin I'm digging out a huge basin I guess it's not great water great water it's just

0:43.0

rain water but I'm digging out a basin I'm gonna fill it with chips and I want to

0:46.3

plant around it I want to kind of maybe start applying some permaculture guild

0:51.7

ideas I know that's like something we've talked about a little bit applying some permaculture guild ideas.

0:53.0

I know that's like something we've talked about a little bit.

0:55.0

I don't want to get like too deep in the permaculture,

0:57.7

but I want to take ideas from it.

0:59.5

And like when ideas like energy and capturing it

1:01.9

and that's the rainwater. That's the most

1:03.6

permaculture thing you said is to take the ideas from it. Well I think you

1:09.1

sent me a little teaser. Yeah and you can go check Jacques's channel out he'll do a

1:12.0

full breakdown of this but you sent me a little teaser of the system because you have an A-frame style greenhouse where I have a lean-to. I kind of wish that it's easier to cap. In this case, the lean to is more helpful,

1:23.4

but your style, the style, it's great.

1:25.6

It looks great.

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