My garden is behind my garage, and the faucet is nowhere near it. I got tired of lugging a watering can back and forth, so hubby and I got the supplies recently to make our own rain barrel!
I got most supplies at Home depot. There were a couple rubber washers we got at Ace Hardware. Otherwise a pretty simple faucet setup with thin mesh netting stapled over the opening to prevent bugs and debris from gooping up the water. We put an overflow hole at the top.
After a 2 week drought, we got rain the night we put this in! A couple rainstorms later and it's beyond filled. I could easily connect a couple more to the overflow and fill those too. Happy garden!
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