Recycled Rainwater Benefits for Your Garden

Rainwater harvesting is a great way to decrease costs while helping keep the environment around you at a safe balance. It can definitely help you reduce waste.

Additionally, a rainwater harvesting system is quite simple to install and maintain. The rainwater brings numerous benefits to your garden. It can help maintain the ph balance, deliver nutrition, and mitigates negative environmental impact.

In the following, we’ll go over some of the advantages a rainwater harvesting system can bring your garden.

Acidity

What’s great about rainwater is that it’s naturally acidic. This can help maintain the soil Ph level in your garden. It naturally falls into the desired ph range for most organically grown vegetables. Most city water is treated to ensure that the metal pipes it travels in are not corroded. This treatment can lead to the water having a ph level of 8.5. When you irrigate your vegetable garden with recycled rainwater, you’re able to maintain that balance much more consistently.

Organic Matter Matters!

If you’re collecting your rainwater from a rooftop, then the water will have some organic matter in it. While the water may look clear, it has been exposed to some of nature on the roof. Contact with things like pollen, animal droppings, and random vegetation can be great for the plants in your garden.

Think of it as your water containing a small amount of natural fertilizer. A rainwater barrel basically is keeping the recycled water alive.

Nutrition

Also, rainwater already contains nitrate. Nitrogen is an incredibly important nutrient for plants. This helps your garden looking as lush as possible. You may not know, but many forms of nitrogen are difficult for plants to absorb. The main avenue of absorption is through oil. The nitrate in your recycled rainwater is already good to go! Your soil and garden will thank you later.

Maintenance

A rain barrel for a vegetable garden just needs to be installed once and it is good to go! After installation, your rainwater harvesting system requires low maintenance. You can even implement a piping system to directly deliver rainwater to your vegetable garden or lawn.

Using a rain barrel for your vegetable garden is a great start at recycling rainwater. You don’t have to go full-on with installing a sophisticated rainwater harvesting system, you can start small and still make a positive impact on the environment. It can also help your garden become fresher and more aesthetically pleasing.

Rainwater is free of a lot of the pollutants in groundwater can be harmful to your plants. It also delivers a serious punch of nutrition that’ll aid in making your vegetables delicious.

Check out how to keep your garden drought proof with a rain barrel here!