Higgs Boson wrote:
Message I posted a while ago didn't get through. I was asking (I
think NAD) what he/she put in the barrels to keep the water from
getting contaminated or breeding mosquitoes w/o harming plants that
drank that water.

Anybody?

HB

I replied. Again, I do not put anything in my rain barrels. My Barrels are
small only 40 gallons and under each of five downspouts. They are open tops
when it rains they just overflow. When it does not rain or i see scum or
bugs on the tops of water, I will top them off with my well water or from
another barrel so it overflows. I will use one barrel at a time. Mosquitoes
are mostly from the drainage ditches or my pond.

I learn to live with them. I do not go out at dusk or early dawn. When the
sun shines the bugs seem to go away. I wear light weight long sleeve shirts
and pants and once in a while spray my clothes with a bug repellant.

In about three weeks the infamous Fish Flies (May Flies) will be more of
nuisance than the mosquitoes. But with all this rain the bugs are bad this
year.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)