I got tired of hauling buckets of water to my distant trees and dumping the water at the base of the tree only to see it quickly run off. I took some old 5-gallon buckets and drilled a 1/4-in.
Five gallon buckets collected rainwater, served as a basket on our pulley system in the tree house, held garden seeds, and served as impromptu chamber pots in cases of necessity. We mixed mud pies in ...