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Post by daylilydude on Sept 30, 2017 5:59:00 GMT -5
Do you save rain water to water with... how would you store it as to keep the skeeter population down?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 30, 2017 8:28:19 GMT -5
I have a 95 gal barrel that I collect the runoff from my back roof in. I only use it to water my herb garden - small, but it's something. And I put about a quarter of one of those mosquito dunks in it twice each season, and never have a problem with mosquito larvae. I also put small pieces of those dunks in my SIPs.
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Post by spike on Sept 30, 2017 8:47:29 GMT -5
Okay I may not be totally "Billy Bob" around these parts but I could be within spittin distance! I have a couple of dark green, 30 gallon, plastic garbage cans. I cut off part of the down spout and aimed it at the garbage cans. A Skeeter dunk now and then takes care of those pesky flying varmints.
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Post by paquebot on Sept 30, 2017 10:33:51 GMT -5
I have a 30 and 50-gallon barrel. Not often that I have them full long enough for mosquitoes to be a problem. If the wigglers do manage to get almost big enough to become mosquitoes, I keep a small bottle of peanut oil in the garden shed. Just a few drops is all that's needed to kill them.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paulf on Sept 30, 2017 17:09:21 GMT -5
Used to have two 55gal barrels attached to downspouts. Didn't use them much so took them out. Had one of those downspout diverters and had window screen on top to keep mosquitos out and put a faucet in the side of the barrel at the bottom to drain the water. Also put a piece of mosquito dunk in the water. Would have worked fine except we had no rain to speak of for a couple of years.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Sept 30, 2017 20:36:48 GMT -5
I have two rain barrels! But DH has never hooked them up to the downspout for me to actually use them. We've been living here for 3 years, and the barrels are sitting right next to the downspouts. Someday. ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/LO3fz8obUsoM1TzmCkAS.png)
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