Eight barrels, all hooked together, attached to the downspout of the gutter which runs from the roof of the back deck. A drip hose running out into the garden. That was the plan. Sounds simple enough.

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So between wanting to be environmentally conscious, trying to save a little money and wanting to insure that we would actually HAVE water for the garden if there were rationing,

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Us city folk are so used to turning on a faucet and having water pressure, that it sometimes surprises us that first time we turn the faucet on our first rain barrel and don’t have the equivalent of a garden hose. The only pressure that a rain barrel hose has is from the weight of the water in the barrel.

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