If you use rain barrels to water your garden, you will eventually realize that you don’t have enough of them.
This post tells you that you never will. But that’s OK. Most of the benefit you will get from using rain barrels, you will get with the first few you install.
This post isn’t nearly as folksy as the introduction implies. To write this, I first created as reasonably sophisticated model of rain barrels and gardens using four decades of daily weather data for Sterling, VA. While the results of that model really only apply to my local climate, I think the more general lessons about rain barrels apply broadly to well-watered temperate climates such as the climate of Virginia.
Continue reading Post #G21-043: A model of a rain barrel system based on historical weather data