Your 2026 Garden

[jxp]

I feel for the rural areas. They will be hurting & if they're on well water they could run out. I was talking on the phone to a friend in
W WA. I mentioned I could tell it had been raining. She said, Oh no. I said that was a good thing here. So little moisture this year. We need some ground water. Besides I cheat & I see my tulips are just poking up; leaves about 3-4 inches high. Irrigation probably won't get turned on until June, and they don't want us using house water for outside plants.

What about gray water? I have my washing machine set up to water a certain flower bed and the drain pipes from my heat pump goes into a rain barrel.

 

[StarOnFire59]

Here in the valley we have automatic irrigation that is fed from canals that run through town. Just last year they opened up the gray water treatment facility. The treated water feeds into the canals now. Hopefully it will be enough for us here. The canals have run low before.
The outlying farms in rural areas are mostly on wells or pumps from creeks. Also, the reservoirs are low, which will be a real issue when wildfires occur.

 

[fuzzi]

What about rain barrels?

I have four set up to catch rain, about 220 gallons on standby.