The week our block's rain barrels actually saved the garden, but then the pump gave out

Last Tuesday we got 2 inches of rain in about 3 hours, and for once the gutters were clear so all four barrels on our street filled up. We used that water to keep the community tomato beds alive through the 5 day dry stretch that followed, which felt great. But then on Saturday the little submersible pump I rigged up just stopped, cheap thing from Amazon, and I spent the morning hauling buckets from the last half-full barrel. Anyone else tried those solar powered pumps for rain collection, or is manual bucket duty just the reality for small neighborhood setups?

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taylor.jessica17d ago

Three solar pumps died here last year, so bucket hauling is honestly way more reliable.