You could instead attach the hose to a second rain barrel for a daisy chain of rain barrels.
Rain barrel but no gutter.
Insert the other end of the hole in the gutter.
Most homes direct water into the barrel with gutters and downspouts but even homes without gutters can use a rain barrel.
These diverters will also form concentrated streams of water that you can channel or collect.
Use a hose clamp to secure the hose to the overflow spout.
The barrel would have to be open top and you d have to put it in a place where the downpour was greatest off the roof.
In this case you would need to attach a hose from the second rain barrel overflow to the gutter so that the second barrel doesn t overflow.
1 walk around your house during the next rain and observe the water.
I was wondering if a rainbarrel would really catch enough rain if you didn t use gutters.
Certainly a gutter system is a natural way to harvest the rain that washes over the roof as it directs it into a concentrated location and fills your barrel quite quickly most barrels fill in less than 1 4 of rain.