Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Rain barrels, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Talk about water re-directing.....
This corner has a downspout--which comes from the gutters.
However---there is always such a copious amount of water running into my corner bed,
and right down to the foundation, that I resorted to purchasing one of those fold-up
downspout directors--more or less like fancy, schmancy splash-pan.

Because it does not really reach to the corner of the siding---I had to improvise.
Tried forever to find a rectangular funnel. Nope!
So--I cut off the top of a juice bottle and inserted it into the purchased downspout and positioned it so--
that it would collect all the water that sheets down from the siding and dumps it out outside the flower bed--
instead of right down to the foundation. Hope you "get" what i am talking about........

Here is the resourceful creation......HEY! It works!!!
The guys that were just here and replaced all my gutters and downspouts were kind enough
to screw this contraption in place. Mucho Gracias!