The best water butts for your garden

As the name suggests, you don't get just one, but two water butts which are both made from recycled plastic and hold 100 litres of water. These slimline water butts are perfect for smaller spaces and also come with a three-part stand, two taps, a rain diverter kit and a five year warranty.

Verified customer review: "Used with 10 x 8 greenhouse and filled within 2 days! Heavy rain! Keeping greenhouse watered 4-6 watering cans per day. Hoping rain will let up sometime! Left lids off for now. Will use connector if this level of rainfall persists (add another butt). Very pleased and the taps work well!"

This 210 litre capacity water butt has a tap included and lockable lid. Amazon reviewers absolutely love this water storage unit. It has been made from durable weather-resistant plastic. 

Verified customer review: "Delivered a day before the date suggested being delivered, and undamaged despite flimsy packaging. All it required was a 24mm hole drilling for a feed pipe to be fitted - not included. The tap worked fine and did not drip, so, as regards to some of the previous reviews, I've done very well. I'm pleased with it and would recommend others buying one. Put it on a sturdy level base to ensure stability and pray for rain !!"

This traditional barrel-shaped water butt can hold up to 168 litres of water and comes with a hose connector tap. It's also fitted with a spring-operated child-safe lid, so it's great for family households and can connect to almost any plastic downpipe. A three-part stand also comes with this water butt so that you can fit your watering can underneath and get to watering your garden.

Verified customer review: "After reading other reviews, I used PTFE tape when fitting the tap. No leaks and water butt performs well. Easy to fit the diverter to the down pipe, it’s a good height with the stand. All in all very pleased.
As other posters have reported, the inside of the butt was wet on delivery due to condensation. It was delivered in a massive cardboard box & delivery was pretty swift."

Another great water butt for budding gardeners as this comes with multiple side planters and a top planter creating an eye-catching display. As well as holding up to 134 litres of water, this water butt comes with a diverter and each box has its own transparent drain tube so you can see the water level in each one.

Verified customer review: "Brilliant product and just what we were looking for. can't believe more variations of this aren't on the market. Would certainly recommend to anyone."

Amazon always pulls out a couple of home gems now and again and this water butt pump is one of them. At £44 it's an absolute bargain and has plenty of great reviews to back it up too. With its powerful 400W electric motor, you will be pumping water around your garden in no time.

Verified customer review: "Does what it means to do. Good pressure, and economical with the water in the butt."

This 350W water pump is perfect for transferring rainwater from your water butt to the garden. It comes with a three-piece aluminium swan neck extension pipe, snap-on connector and a nifty float switch that will turn off automatically when the water level is too low.

Verified customer review: "This is a good value pump and is great for distributing stored water from garden butts to the vegetables and flowers. It will pay for itself very quickly by saving on the cost of using metered water if I had to use the mains supply. Also greener by not having to use mains water."

This water butt pump kit fits a variety of open top and covered rainwater tanks. It also comes with a wall and tank attachment, a 2.5-metre garden hose and a spray projection, so you can even water those hard to reach plants.

Verified customer review: "Really happy with the performance of this pump which we bought to water our allotment from our 210 litre rainwater butts. Nice and powerful and cuts down dramatically on watering time!"

This water butt tap is simple and easy to fit and fits 3/4 inch BSP holes present in almost all water butts. It's worth buying a spare when it's this price.

Verified customer review: "Good fit for the water butt. All parts working fine now."

Retrieve water quickly with this wide-opening fast flow tap from Water Butts Direct. The wider opening offers water at a 50 per cent faster flow rate than standard water butt taps; fits 3/4 inch holes and is suitable for most makes of water butts.

This water butt tap may be cheap but it does what it needs to. It fits 3/4 inch holes and it will get water flowing into your watering can in no time.

Verified customer review: "Excellent service from Toolstation, I have to say I have never been let down with the quality"

Attach two water butts for extra water storage with this 50cm connector pipe. It's made from recyclable materials too and made in the UK.

Verified customer review: "Pleased with product, does the job. Excellent value."