Greenhouse With Rain Collecting Roof

I found some for 18 a pair now i don t like to pay much for anything so into the workshop i went to make my own.

Greenhouse with rain collecting roof. There s just a short list of rooftop surfaces that rainwater harvesters should avoid. Terry king s allotment gardening on a budget 5 500 views. While metal roofing or plastic sheeting e g. Clara coleman a second generation american organic farmer consultant and speaker notes that the water collected from the roof of your greenhouse from runoff is a great asset with one caveat.

Doesn t that sound like a lot of water that you could harvest and use for free. I bodged together a way to capture water off the mini greenhouse roof. Without any guttering system the rain water running from the roof of the greenhouse structure will drip off the ends onto the soil. This will affect the soil for example by forming holes in the ground.

Just a quick evening blog. The good news is most roofing materials are suitable for rainwater harvesting. Because rainwater is as yet a free resource and typically one of high quality and nutrition growers are seeing benefits to installing harvesting systems. Approximately 900 gallons of water will flow from the roof of a 30 by 96 high tunnel with a half inch rain event.

Fitting guttering to the greenhouse to collect the valuable rain water using recycled materials 312 duration. Around 600 gallons of rainwater can be harvested from about one inch of rain if it falls from a thousand square foot roof. These pipes take the water to the water barrels where the rainwater is stored. The water then drains into the downspouts which are connected to pvc pipes.

The roof of the greenhouse is taken as a catchment surface with gutters installed and have a series of the downspouts which are connected to a 4 inch or 6 inch pvc pipe. With the increase in the number of gutters the downspouts are connected to larger pipes the length of the end pipes can go up to 18 inches or larger for big greenhouses. Making my own gutter end and down pipe arrangement. Well we thought so too.

It works by catching rainwater from the greenhouse roof into the gutters on each side of the structure. That is why my husband and i began harvesting our rainwater. I searched for greenhouse rainwater collector kits on ebay today for my home gh to collect nutritious rain water for my seedlings. Rainwater harvesting rwh is a method of collecting rainwater from the roofs of buildings or other catchment surfaces and sending it to storage for future use.

I always collect.