Water in butt for months, smells horrid should I ditch it?

I am sure it will do no harm to the plants but unless you empty it completly and clean it out it will continue to be unpleasant all Summer long.

keep the lid on!
you'll not find anything to stop it going smelly except things that stop it being good...

you could swish it round with a broom to get the stagnation off the side and bottom, then that'll all go out on the plants and the new stuff will replace the nasty-smelling stuff.
if that makes any sense.

keeping the water moving is the only way to stop stagnation.

It says on the tin that a little drop of Jeyes fluid will keep butts sweet, I think that refers to water butts and not peoples butts

I had a dead bird in mine, no idea how long it had been there but it was really unpleasant I can tell you. So it was cleaned our with Jeyes and now has a lid on it with a hole for the water only to go into it.

ooh, but if something has died in there, then ignore my last post and ditch the water!