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Catch Rain Water for Plants in a Baby Pool


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Catch Rain Water for Plants in a Baby Pool - jugs, bucket, pool straight on shotIn the corners of our house, the water shoots over the gutter guards when it rains hard.

I turned a bad thing into a good thing by putting a small baby pool in the corners to catch the water. I keep a weight in them to keep the wind from blowing them out of position.

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When needed, I save the water in gallon jugs for watering my plants. When it's a lot, I also fill a five gallon bucket with the water and put a lid on the bucket.

Using a long shoe string, run through the handles, it's easy to gather up all the jugs and carry them to the pool. I dip the water out with a small bucket and use a funnel to fill the jug. I purchased the funnel from Dollar Tree. It came with a set of 3; small, medium, and large.

This is an out of sight, out of way place so I just leave the jugs of water here until I need one or two to water the plants.

Lately, there has been more water than I could use. To keep from raising mosquitoes, I empty the pools after collecting as much water as I need.

This pool needed a good cleaning so I did that too.

Catch Rain Water for Plants in a Baby Pool - milk jugs, buckets, and pool
 

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August 26, 20190 found this helpful

We do this, too, but your way is much smarter. Our method has been using big unused trashcans, and I am sure you can image how annoying it is to get the last of it out! ;)

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August 27, 20190 found this helpful

I like your way much better but since we put a metal roof on our house, the water comes off really fast. I think it would shoot over the trash can. We are trying to keep the ground around our house as dry as we can to keep moisture from getting under our house.

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I would really like to be able to catch the water at the roof and run it to a rain barrel.

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August 27, 20190 found this helpful

the bears and racoons would enjoy the swim in my yard if i did this,lol

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