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I was sad to see this not get more attention, maybe because many of us do not have yards?
I hope you will continue to post things like this--because I am compiling them for the one day soon that I will have a small yard!

This is fantastic... I live in a condo-townhouse and I wonder if the HOA would object? What a great idea.

I don't have a yard so maybe I'm missing something here. If it's raining, isn't the garden also getting rained on at the same time? Wouldn't it make more sense to have a rain barrel so the rain water from the downspout could be used in times when the garden is not already wet with rainwater?

The Green Cat has a good point - don't need irrigation when its raining, unless its not raining very much, in which case this could help. But a 1" rainstorm is a huge rain event - something like that only happens a couple times a year in most places in the country, so if you needed 1,000 gallons on a regular basis, don't count on this to solve your problem.

Another hair-brained idea... OK so the water comes rushing down the downspout and slams into the little box and jets out thru the top and ends up right next to the foundation. NOT! A rain barrel is a better solution for trapping a bit of water to use again later. Most rain barrels I have researched are so lame. The biggest issue I have with rain barrels is the over flow is so darn small! These all look like will over flow in place next to the house. Just found one that seems to 'get it' -> at least the video makes sense www.aquabarrel.com