[Dmritard96] built this automated watering system to keep his garden growing while he’s out-of-town. It uses rain barrels, which capture and store rainwater, as a source. These barrels provide ...

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The system is fed by two large 55 gallon barrels that collect rain from his gutters. A 1/2 HP well pump is used to pressurize the collected water, which is then dispensed throughout his garden by ...

Some fancier models even come with filtration systems to keep debris and insects ... And they're not hard to make; you could DIY your own rain barrel with some basic materials and save yourself ...

They can be as simple as a hanging five-gallon bucket with a spigot or as complicated as her DIY rain barrel system with a sensor connected to a drip hose that automatically watered her garden in ...