Double Savings

very garden needs water. Sometimes it seems as though the weather gods provide all they need, but every good gardener knows this is fool’s gold: only mature trees and hardy shrubs will survive on a rain-only diet. Pots full of annuals will wither; vegetables will bolt and go to seed; newly planted perennials will give up the ghost; and seeds will fail to sprout. Supplemental water is essential, and every garden has a mains tap for this very reason – but not every invention is the right one. In fact, they may even bypass a simpler, more elegant solution, and nothing could be as elementary as harvesting and storing rain when it falls to use when it does not. Arit