I’ve started to install an outside bath round the side of my house. The aim is for it to use rainwater, but I realise the rainwater tanks I bought are a bit teeny for the job, so I’m going to install it first and then work out functional water supply from there – I might get a bigger tank, I might – as mentioned in the video – plumb it in properly from the bathroom.
The plan is to brick a small area, so that there’s a flat surface for the bath to sit on, build a frame which is secured through star pickets (picked up from hard rubbish, along with wood for the frame), and then sit the bath in the frame.
The water will drain from the bath into a small, well, drain which will carry it round the garden to the fruit trees, starting with the water-hungry almond tree, wending its way to a mandarin, round the macadamia (which to be fair doesn’t seem to care much if it’s watered) and then to the grapefruit, by which time I suspect there won’t be much water left, if any. Rather than trying to speed the water flow, I’m going to slow it down with little (teensy weensy) catchment ponds and gravel and the like, so that it gets absorbed by the soil, rather than zooming around and flooding the poor grapefruit.
