==Harcostar Child Safe Water Butt== Having just moved into a new house with both front and back gardens we decided to get a water butt thinking that they could surely only be £20 odd. Having had a hunt around it seems they were a little more expensive than first thought and at a local garden centre we decided on this Carcostar Child safe one as it had a good capacity, was one of the cheaper prices for what you got and of course the safety feature was a plus for us too. Water butts can be bought at a variety of different places and we checked both online and the usual stores such as B&Q but found a local garden centre had the best deal as ...  Read the complete review

Having just moved and finding out that I'm now on a water meter made me start to think about cheaper or free ways to keep the garden watered and avoiding the use of tap water. Well, here's an obvious one. The Harcostar Child Safe Water Butt holds an astonishing 227 litres of water (or 50 gallons in old money) which is enough to fill the average watering can 40 times. Now obviously you have to get that water into it, so here's how it works: You get (usually separately) a Harcostar Universal Rain Trap - this is a catchment system that is designed to be very simple to fit to a downpipe anywhere around your house. All you do is cut about an inch or so ...  Read the complete review