On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:00:29 -0400, Dwight Sipler
wrote:


Unless you particularly want the green barrels, you can get plastic 55
gallon barrels for much less if you look around. Various types of food
products are shipped in such containers. They don't have installed
plumbing, but for about $20 each you can afford to put some sort of
plumbing into them. The only other problem is that they're white, and
stand out against foliage unless you put a fence or hedge around them.

I got a couple from my local greenhouse supplier. $15 a couple years
ago.

True. I like the ones I have simply because everything was assembled with the
spigot and hose, and overflow mechanism in place to hook more than one together.
I know it's less money the way you suggest, but in the long run the complaining
my husband would do to assemble using plumbing parts would drive me crazy.