There is
probably no one who doesn’t like a lush green garden in the backyard, but the
Australian climate is not so congenial to create an amazing green landscape.
The problem is mostly with the water shortage and people face water restrictions
because of limited water supply. People who are very enthusiastic about
gardening or professional hobbyists, create rain water
tanks in Melbourne to find a way to nurture their creativity.
Collection of Rainwater
You need to
plan well about the hard surfaces on your property where rain water sheds such
as garage, shed roof and others. So, first calculate the approximate area of
the surfaces and calculate how much water you can collect it from those
surfaces. Let’s say you have a total of 250 square meters of surface area and
Melbourne has average 600mm of rainfall annually. So, multiple both you will
get the total litres of water hitting on the surface. You need to minus a
certain percentage because of spillage and evaporation; still you can collect quite
well for your garden.
Storage of Water
Water is not
just needed for plants but for other accessories including water
features in Sydney, your small
pond, fountain etc. Let’s cut the water features for the time being and focus
on the garden including edible if any. As a rule of thumb, 8-10 litres of water
is required daily for every square meter fo garden bed, and in summers, for
edible trees, you need to pour at least 4-5 liters. If you have a 20 square
meter garden and ten fruit trees, you roughly need 230 liters of water every
day. So, overall estimation is to create approximately 21000 litres of water
for three scorching summer months.
You can create
this tank on your terrace, or you can create small tanks hook on your bathroom,
kitchen, backyard and other possible places.
Installation Tips
Many people
also install garden
statues in Melbourne with colourful water features. Apart from manual
watering to your plants, you can direct your tank to your water features where
the water is circulated continuously.
In brief, you
have certain options like:
- Normal guttering or guttering that separates leaves and other debris
- Use first flush diverters to sidetrack the muddy initial flow of water away from the tank.
- Use charged or a wet system that runs through a pipe from roof to tank diverts underground or dry system.
- Also use mesh system to prevent entering mosquitoes or other insects.
