How to Build a Rain Barrel

Building a rain barrel as shown on HGTV. Use a 55-gallon drum and the following parts from Lowes: 212957, 22690, 22681, 22682, 22034, 25010, 21516, 20992

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• rain
• barrel
• gardening

[duchessaustria]

Rainwater now has fukashima radioactive fallout in it now;wouldnt use it on your plants;better test it.

[strangeseeds]

Oh my! Just googled it and sure enough! Wow! This is disturbing to say the least.Municipalities are filtering it out from town water supplies? Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

[elkimmett]

This video lacks details and is out of date

[strangeseeds]

What more detail do you need? I built several fine from this video alone. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make one. Who cares if it is out of date? What, do you have robots catching your rain and transporting into the garden for you?

Or do you mean the Lowes part numbers are out of date? That is probably true.

[windrowcompost05]

Why do you just steal and post copyrighted videos??????

[strangeseeds]

Not intentional. Was only added to show a friend (for temporary), forgot about it and then got a message from the nephew of the lady featured in the piece loving it, so I kept it up. If HGTV or Paul James wanted it down, they'd have had YouTube remove it. It was posted prior to any message from Youtube regarding copyrighted videos (look at the post date) You shouldn't make false accusations. If someone with authority asked me to remove it, I would and quite easily.

[hay427]

No matter what you do you are pretty likely to get mosquitos. So you put 1 or 2 fish in there and badaboom!! Fish are happy and the fish add vital nutrients to the water for your plants. And they eat the larvae.

[duchessaustria]

yep;sure is .Have you seen fallout chart? Yahoo news today also says tuna has radation;wasnt trying to be smart just reminding you what is going on;cause people are watering vegetable gardens.You should educate people to use PDZ you can buy it in a tack shop where they sell horse stuff;to keep radation out of garden;maybe put it in rainbarrelwater? You are the filmaker;I am just watching the show!Just was trying to wake you up. Thanks for reply;you are one of the few who gave it any thought !

[KrzysiekKCN]

00:01 Test

[mickleb]

Wait a second. Isn't it already raining on your plants? Plus all over the yard? Just saying.

[lezliiesq]

Guess what, your plants get watered with rainwater every time it rains. Why would using it from a barrel make any difference

[garnetdragonfly5]

Rainwater tanks are very common in Australia...I wouldn't be without mine but I just wish we had a bit of rain to fill 'em! lol

[crsbt]

good vid thx