Tub o Rain

All the kids are playing with tub o rain this year, and I'm no different! For about 4 years now we've had 3 - 55 gallon rain barrels for some of our various flower gardens. With the expansion of the vegetable garden this year we needed MORE water. McKenna and I trotted off to get 5 more rain barrels this morning. We went over to Nashville Barrel and Drum and had 5 rain barrels all loaded up when the GREAT staff asked if I'd ever considered tub o rain. He pointed to the corner and my eyes lit up!!!
TUB O RAIN


Tub o rain holds 275 gallons of rain water! Tub o rain costs about 1/2 the price of 5 rain barrels plus it already has a water spout. I had to to put a few pieces of PVC pipe together to make it garden hose ready, but much less effort than 5 rain barrels. No cutting required!
How does tub o rain work you ask? I had to run some PVC from a rain gutter all the way around the deck.


Since tub o rain is gravity fed we just had to make sure the pvc was always going down. All in all a pretty quick and easy project. Tomorrow we have a couple loose ends to tie up. Hopefully it rains on Thursday like it's supposed to and we can see how long it takes to fill tub o rain. 275 gallons should go a pretty long way.
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