Frank Clemente, Sustainable Designer Presents

Design and Installation

Harvest the Power of Rain

For Better Blooms and Healthy Plants
Corporations leverage the productivity of nature and charge you for it.
We are so accustomed to paying for the gifts of nature to others that we don't think we have a right or the ability to access it directly for ourselves. Rains negative ions revitalize all plants. Store water the way nature does it underground. Harvesting earthworks is an easy and natural way to store water ( No need for storage tanks) It provides the roots of growing trees access water as needed. Rainwater catching flushes out accumulated salts at the root zone. Salt sucks away the water that would normally be available to roots. Less salt in the soil makes the plant more cold hardy. Salt accumulation can result in a drought-like soil environment which leads to higher water use.

You can do it.

Now you can harvest rainwater to leverage your source of water to irrigate your plants and to capture the rain to make it work for you and your plants. This water supply is FREE.. And, Its use does not pollute.

How to catch the rain?

Its a system of shallow earthworks or contours, or pathways that catch and deliver rainwater to plants. Rain harvesting is natural and automatic. It doesnt fail because of busted valves, rabbit-chewed emitters, waterline leaks, or degraded tubing. Avoids time and energy spent flushing out filters, clogged emitters and replacing damaged micro-tubing.

How much rainwater can I collect?

Here is a rule of thumb. For every inch of rain that falls on 1,000 square feet of land or surface area it delivers 600 gallons of water. Example: An 8,000 square foot lot collects 4,800 gallons of water per one inch of rain. Phoenixs annual rainfall rate is 7 inches. 7 x 4,800 gal. = 33,600 gallons of water. A Mesquite tree uses an average 3,200 of water per year. Ten trees can be watered free with rainwater harvesting. After 2 or 3 years of using the drip system they will maintain themselves with rainwater for life.

Whats good about it?

Plant the water before you plant It works for trees, shrubs or groundcover. It controls excessive runoff, It assists in consuming less resources The goal is to select and plant vegetation in a way that rainwater is the landscapes primary source of water Over time drip irrigation is used as a supplement.

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Frank Clemente, Sustainable Designer Presents

Design and Installation

Harvest the Power of Rain

Why you will enjoy rainwater harvesting. Yes and no. There isnt a plant that doesnt Rainwater harvesting systems are designed in the ground, and from the ground up. We like rainwater. Different plants have differuse backyard-sized strategies to ensure ent water requirements; such as Xeristhat the water is absorbed into the ground capes, semi-tropicals, cacti, and succuin a matter of hours. No standing water. No lents. By grouping plants based on water mosquitoes. Earth-stored water is watering need we control water use. Drip is good for potted plants, hanging plant for less. We perform a percolation test before we install a rainwater harvesting earthbaskets and year-round raised works system. bed vegetable gardens and backup.

Do all landscape plants benefit from rainwater harvesting?

Links To Know More http://whttp://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/water/ az1052/harvest.html http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/water/az1052/ harvest.html http:p://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/water/ harvesting

Roof runoff is captured and directed to raised beds by gutters and downspouts. Dry-stacked walls allow for overflow drainage. Composted beds hold moisture better than dirt.

What about maintenance?

Earthworks is relatively inexpensive to install and maintain. It requires some maintenance after large storms. Its best to keep water-needy plants closer to the home to catch roof runoff. There are various strategies to capture water for the long run by constructing berms and basins, low walled terraces, infiltration basins, some types of French drains, vertical rock tubes and low profile dry-stacked stone walls to direct and hold water for plants. Listen to Frank on the Green Roundtable Radio Show on the first Tuesday of the month from 3-4 pm on KXXT 1010 am.

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