[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 ...

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 ...