Make sure to check out our rainwater harvesting system. Better for your garden and better for the environment. http://www.rain-barrel.com/ Let me know what you think, and 1 random poster will receive a free gardening tool.
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What a neat concept and great for people to water that plants and for those that live in the country.
Posted by: marla#3291 | April 22, 2009 at 06:21 PM
Great Idea! I would have never of thought of something like that!
Posted by: Dani | April 22, 2009 at 07:05 PM
What a fabulous idea, we could do with one of these. We currently also collect our washing machine water to use on the plants - I am sure we could connect one of these up to work with that too.
Posted by: Christine C | April 23, 2009 at 01:41 AM
This would be great to use especially for those people that live in areas that have to be careful about their water usuage.
Posted by: Tona | April 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Awesome idea! I will have to check into that.
Posted by: robindiane | April 24, 2009 at 03:16 PM
I love this I was drooling over it on the fiskars site. We have well and septic and during the dry summer months need to conserve water, this would be perfect to help with that!
Posted by: Betsy Burnett | April 25, 2009 at 04:37 AM
I love the idea. And it looks so easy. I will have to direct my husband to your link and see how we can work this into our house. Thanks for idea.
Posted by: Patty B | April 25, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Love that Fiskars is making this!! I am SOOOOOO going to show this to my DH in the monring!! I just wished it rained more here in Southern California. I could see us putting these in at our home even for the little rain we do get...every little bit helps.
Posted by: Amyre | April 26, 2009 at 01:49 AM
These are soooo cool! What a great way to conserve water. I definately want to get one of these when we get our own house!
Posted by: Jen B | April 27, 2009 at 11:41 PM
This is great! I saw it rain barrels on a news segment on tv!
Posted by: sandyh50 | April 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM
oh! i need one of those!! i am looking into a composter in the future too! thanks for a chance at a gardening tool! jen t.
Posted by: jennifer taylor | April 28, 2009 at 07:33 PM
I saw this at Lowes and being in the south where we get a lot of summer time heat and drought we thought this was awesome. We've lost part of our veggy garden because of lack of ran and having a well you can always use it. After reading about the system on Fiskars.com I know my husband and I could make the greatest use of this.
Posted by: Debby | April 29, 2009 at 09:23 PM
I love this I have to admit I collect rain water in a garbage can and reuse it but this would be so much better. ..
Posted by: Michelle Salazar | April 30, 2009 at 09:12 AM
I should never had showed this to my hubby,lol.I'd love to win one just for him.He works so hard and comes home and works the garden and takes care of me.When all the crops are in he never sells them,family and friends,neighbors come and get what they need.
Posted by: Lisa Simpson | May 01, 2009 at 09:43 AM
I absolutely think this is GENIUS !! Connecting it to the downspouts in that way. I saw this last week and was telling Kelly Jo how beautiful this was and how much I would love to have one! I had no idea Fiskars had these in their line now!
We too, have septic and well, so we try to be conservative with our watering!
Way to go FISKARS ! This is a beautiful product!
patty 2832
Posted by: Patty W | May 01, 2009 at 09:44 AM
we collect rain water (for our plants)all the time but we don't have such a fancy barrel with an outlet!!
Posted by: LWal | May 01, 2009 at 09:45 AM
how cool is that!!! thanks for sharing such a great project!
Posted by: maryanne hoekman | May 01, 2009 at 09:57 AM
I have been watching these and actually thinking how kewl it is. I used the keep all my pails etc under spots that had run off but my dh hated what it did to the lawn under it so he put a stop to that. Now I just keep my wheel barrow out and collect the rainfall from there!
Posted by: Louise #3903 | May 01, 2009 at 10:01 AM
These rainbarrels look great for collecting water to help in the garden and save the water from the well.
Posted by: Carol N | May 01, 2009 at 10:14 AM
My husband would love this... he does all the yard and garden stuff... I am a total black thumb, lol!
Posted by: Gretchen | May 01, 2009 at 10:42 AM
We're having lots of fun in our new community garden plot this year. We've had our eye on this rain barrel for some time--lots of neat features.
Posted by: Angela #3100 | May 01, 2009 at 10:52 AM
I think that this is a fabulous idea!!!! My grandmother was true believer that rain water was the only way to go for your flower and gardens....what a great way to update the tradition :)
Posted by: Jen | May 01, 2009 at 10:59 AM
I really like the connect system, where it fills but doesn't let it overflow and set. With the threat of mosquito's you can't have standing water here. I plan on getting one or two of these this year.
Posted by: Donna | May 01, 2009 at 11:07 AM
I've been looking at this, but just haven't had the money to buy it. I've turned my front yard into a vegetable garden and rainwater would sure help out this summer. I'm looking forward to harvesting all those tomatoes we've got planted!
Posted by: Jennifer English | May 01, 2009 at 11:51 AM
This is one of those things... where my first thought is "This is such a great idea! Why wasn't this available years ago!"
The best features:
1) overflow control
2) lid to keep the kids/mosquitoes out!
3) I can connect the water balloon /squirt gun filler to the hose!
Posted by: Barb | May 01, 2009 at 11:52 AM