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Having never owned a house or really had a yard of my own, I got pretty excited and decided to do some ad-hoc landscaping. Built some raised beds for vegetables, and just laying in some organic shaped in-ground beds for low water decorative plants. Gonna fill the rest in with gravel. Any pointers?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Good advice. Will a barrel help to settle out the micro plastics and bad stuff?

[–] jack 2 points 7 months ago

The most common setups I've seen use "first flush diverters" to let the first bit of rainwater run off before collecting the rest, which will handle a large chunk of the impurities. The nastiest stuff tends to come with the initial volume.

You could further filter/distill but I don't think that's as common.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry, I don't understand your question.