 Good morning, and welcome to Getting Clean on the Prairies. I'm just sitting here on my front step enjoying some coffee and admiring my garden space. I used to have a garden space out back that was a, you know, the traditional garden where we rode a tilled every spring and fought with the weeds, dealt with drought, dealt with bad soil, had trees kind of contending for moisture all the time. So it kind of soured me on gardening for a few years and I gave it up. But a couple years later than in this area out here, I started a potato patch and I started my first potato patch where I grew potatoes under straw using that roost out method and it went really good. It just worked a good for me here because I didn't have to fight with weeds, didn't have to deal with bad soil. So there's a lot of things to contend with here on the prairies, but I'm hopeful that there's gonna be some rain coming soon and I'm gonna show you how I collect rain for my garden. So I wanted my shed to have a vintage kind of old weathered look eventually, so what we did was we sided this with some one-inch fence board that's untreated lumber and did a boredom batten type finish on it. So over the next couple years this woodshed kind of weather and get that gray vintage look that I was kind of hoping to achieve on my shed. I used some galvanized steel to finish off the eaves and the drive-in door here, hoping that it will kind of rust over time. I've beaten it up with some hammers and chains and kind of give it like a hail damage look, but it's holding out so far. It's not rusting like it would because it's galvanized, so I may look at trying a few different methods on it to see if I can get it to get that rusted old look to it. So I had my carbon tear take some of the leftover fence boards and create a planter's box here in my window, so I will be putting some flowers in there soon. I managed the salvage. I used door and old picture window from a house that makes this a great window for putting my plants in in the spring. And also with the wood that was left over from the siding we put together a nice potting table here that I'll be using a lot. For potting up my plants. And I just wanted to show you the cute little decorations my sister-in-law Noreen made for me. This is called the Tea Party with the bees. She hand-painted onto these pieces of wood. So as you can see here, we got the eaves troughs put in and got it all set up so that runs into this water tank. So these tanks, I don't know if anybody's seen these, but they are everywhere. You can see them pretty much in anybody's farm yard or at the lake or in the back of people's trucks. These are food grade safe containers that you can buy used usually on Kijiji or in the States. I guess they call it Craig's List. These usually sell for about a hundred bucks. That's what we paid for this one. And it makes a great way to store water. I have it on the north side of the shed hoping that I don't have an LJ issue, but I may have to look at either painting it black or finding a tarp or something to cover it just to keep the LJ from growing inside. So as you can see, we got the the two sides all running into this tank here. So any rain that comes off this roof all gets collected. We just cut the hole into the top of this tank so that the eaves troughs run straight into the tank. Well, there are two ways you can get water from these tanks here. So the main one would be of course this tap that they have on them. I bought this attachment here. I'll try to find where I got this from or put a link below as to where you can find these, but it's a two-inch coupling adjustment. And then this adapter here makes it so you can hook up a garden hose. And then you can use it just to fill up your watering cans. If you want to just do a little bit of watering by hand, this is a great little thing to have. The second thing that I have set up here on my tank is a pump system that I have come up with. And this is a jet pump here. I'll have to look up the specs on that to give those to you. But it is a I guess a sump pump, jet pump that you would use to pump out septic tanks. Or if you have a bunch of water that you need to move, people use them like I say in their sump pumps in their basements. So what I can do here is I just hook up my hose to this. These tanks have a large hole on the top here. So I just put this inside my water tank, just fits. Submersit into the water. When I'm ready to water my garden, I can just plug this in, which will start the pump going. Then I can just turn on my little hand wand here and water my plants, water my containers, water my flower beds. So it doesn't produce a lot of pressure like you couldn't run a sprinkler or anything like that. You still have to water by hand, but it's something that I enjoy doing every day or every evening. And works pretty good for me. So of course the amount of rain water that you can collect off of a little roof like this is not a whole lot, especially if you're only getting little showers and not getting, you know, a steady rain that would go on for hours and hours. So it could take a lot of time to actually fill up this tank using this system that I have here on my garden shed. So in order to get more rain water collected and stored into my tank, we also use the rain barrels that we have set up on our house. Those of course can collect a lot more water in a nice downpour with this larger roof system. So I'll just show you what I do with those rain barrels and how I get those, that water pumped into my tank. So whenever I can, after we have a good rainfall and the rain barrels are full, I use this method to collect the water from the rain barrels at the house and get my tank filled up as much as I can. So I hope you enjoyed watching my video on how I collect rain water for my garden. 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