Garden water collection

Capture rainwater from your roof and use it in your garden with these unique DIY rain barrel ideas, ranging from simple to complex.

STAND-ALONE RAINWATER COLLECTOR: We are students industrial design and for the past 2 weeks we have been building a rain harvesting system. Our client is a community with a public garden because they don't have a private garden for themselves. The garden is a place where they can c…

Collecting rainwater can be a practical solution for managing water resources efficiently. If you find yourself with excess rainwater and limited storage

Essentially, my garden is annoyingly far away from larger sources of water (although I have and do use the hose from the house in the heat of the summer and I do have two IBC totes about 50 yards away connected to the outdoor shed) but I had these smaller rain barrels that could never be adequately filled due to lack of a roof to funnel the free rain water into them. Pinterest at the time didn’t have any good designs so this is what I finagled together. Basically it is a butterfly roof…

Want to collect rainwater at home and save money on water? Build one of these rainwater harvesting systems at home with barrels or tanks.

Capture precious runoff in catch basins, barrels, and cisterns

As temperatures drop there are a few things you can do to winterize rain barrels, rain tanks, drip irrigation systems, and plumbing lines.

Over the last couple of years, collecting rain water has become a highly popular method of watering plants. Rain water harvesting, which refers to both collecting and storing rain water, is an easy, convenient, environment-friendly, and sustainable gardening practice. However, an issue that concerns many homeowners is how long is rain water good for plants. Below, I’ll explore if there are limits to how long you can store rain water before it becomes harmful to plants.

Learn how we set up a DIY solar-powered rain barrel irrigation system from scratch to harvest rainwater and reduce your water use!

Isn't rainwater too acidic to drink? Isn't rainwater illegal? How do I know how much I need to collect? We have the answers and more on why rainwater collection is our preferred off grid water solution!