Georgia Gardening: Do you use a well for irrigation?, 1 by bulbhound

bulbhound wrote:
i know i would love a well, long term. but for now im going to go buy 1500 gallon tank dig a pit behind my gh the tank plus shipping is 600$ i ve got a 3hp pool pump that will irragate through soaker hoses in the beds, the lawn however is a bit more tricky to calculate but i thought of using a bypass system to run sprinklers in zones i estimte i can keep eden going on 1 hr a day run time based on ruff estimates, i can water through the BAN SEASON okay but i wont know about the lawn untill the hole system is in. i will be collecting rain water from my gutters i estmate that 1" of rain will fill a 1500 gallon in tank in one days rain thats a heavy rain mind you but im sure the estmates are sound with some plumbing scrounging and a bit of luck i should come in under a1000$ for everything although i have to dig a hole 8ft wide and 5 ft deep! ive been collecting water from one gutter 30 ft long into a 95gal can for a while now, a mild rain will fill it in two hrs or less!