Catch Rain Water for Plants in a Baby Pool

In the corners of our house, the water shoots over the gutter guards when it rains hard.

I turned a bad thing into a good thing by putting a small baby pool in the corners to catch the water. I keep a weight in them to keep the wind from blowing them out of position.

When needed, I save the water in gallon jugs for watering my plants. When it's a lot, I also fill a five gallon bucket with the water and put a lid on the bucket.

Using a long shoe string, run through the handles, it's easy to gather up all the jugs and carry them to the pool. I dip the water out with a small bucket and use a funnel to fill the jug. I purchased the funnel from Dollar Tree. It came with a set of 3; small, medium, and large.

This is an out of sight, out of way place so I just leave the jugs of water here until I need one or two to water the plants.

Lately, there has been more water than I could use. To keep from raising mosquitoes, I empty the pools after collecting as much water as I need.

This pool needed a good cleaning so I did that too.