ok real quick y'all... rain barrels, i DID NOT expect this...

one of my big plans this year is doubling my garden output. I've added space, just got two yards of dirt delivered, got all my seeds started in the greenhouse (and then some, i plan to give away a lot of starts to my circle) ANYWAY..

something i decided to do was get some rain barrels for supplemental water. i found a couple of decent 50 gal ones at a good price, so just yesterday i popped off a section of one of the downspouts and set one up under it.

we've had a pretty drizzly day, weather app called for .15 inch of precipitation for the day, so just now i went to check on it and it's spilling out the overflow. holy crap. that was fast!

i know YMMV, but dang. i think I'm going to get at least one barrel for each of the other 3 downspouts. we have herbs and flowers out front, greenhouse on one side and 4 olle beds plus 5 full size plum trees to the other side. we WILL use the water.

tldr; rain barrels fill up FAST y'all. if you garden at all, get them.