u/gargonite

Hello,

I am looking to set up a rainwater irrigation system using two stacked IBC totes connected in series. I can't let the excess overflow water exit the totes because it's too close to the foundation of my house. The tanks are 48"x40"x45" and can hold 1000L each.

The system would have a hose running from it down my fence into my backyard to irrigate 8 8'x4'x2.5' raised garden beds just using gravity to irrigate. I know a time controlled valve would be used for daily irrigation but how would I implement an overflow mechanism? The only thing that comes to mind is a ballcock valve but I wouldn't know how to set it up given the size of the tanks.

New homeowner in London, Ontario. Started gardening this spring and it's been interesting. My back deck has at least one rabbit den under it. On a good day I walk into my backyard and see a singular rabbit amongst my strawberries, planted them in April and have yet to get any of them. The worst I've seen was 5 rabbits in my yard (30'x100').

I can live catch and then release within 1km with the permission of the landowner, which is just going to give someone else a rabbit problem or dispose of them as nuisance pests for damaging property. However, I used to be a butcher and staunchly believe if you're going to kill an animal it should be used and this just seems wasteful. So I called the ministry of natural resources and they told me this morning I could:

• Obtain my hunting license with a small game permit and hunt rabbits in season from September 25 to the last day of February.
  • South of the French and Mattawa river I can't use snares.
  • Living inside the city limits of London I can not discharge any firearm/air rifle/spring-guns(no idea what a spring gun is) or any form of bow/crossbow inside the city limits unless its on agricultural land, and my lot is definitely not agricultural land.
  • So I can't shoot them, and I can't trap them? Or do I have to live trap them and dispatch then process? Could I use a slingshot?
• Hire a someone to come trap and euthanize them as nuisances. Which is just paying someone to waste the animal when I could do it myself.
• Alternatively, get my trapping license.
  • So I went over to the Ontario Fur Management Federation.
  • Would require a 40 hour course and cost $350 and then maintain an annual trapping license.
  • If I wanted to sell the pelt a fur dealers license.

So I called two instructors and inquired about when they were offering their next course. The first said yes I would need a trapper license and his course is running in September. The second said his course will be running at the end of November. Also, cottontails are not furbearing mammals for trapping license purposes and it wouldn't cover me as this is an unintended grey area.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I just want to eat my strawberries and not have to throw rabbits into the compost bin. If I could eat them and maybe make a set of mittens each year that seems far better than wasting them.