[Kagganz]

I've been taking mine with me in any container I can lay my hands on.

I'm in the middle of the allotment and can't put anything such as a shed on it for a run off (mind you if there's no rain anyway.......  :blink: )

Is there something I'm missing?

Special developed trolleys that carry 30 gallons and make them feel as light as air?

Proven to work rain dances?

Just wondered how you get your water to the plot really...........

If nothing else,  I'll feel better knowing others have a humped back and bow legs from carrying the stuff!

[mumofstig]

I don't know if this would help?

[sloworm]

I like you Kagganz carry mine in all available containers ! I find plastic milk bottles the easiest as they stack well in a wheel barrow and have handles 

[vet]

I guess we don't know how lucky we are. Our site has tanks, about one to every four/six plots. I take it your site is waterless?

[Runwell-Steve]

I'm looking for a nice 500 litre bunded tank that I can attach to my trailer.  I can fill that up at home then tow it to the allotment and attach a hoe and water quite happily.

Small problem is thay are a little bit pricey

In the meantime I will continue with lots of walking to the tap with watering cans.

[Manlea1]

Why not use a old 40ltr aquaroll? used by caravanners  holds a fair bit of water and then attach the handle and walkies  because they are round its easy to pull,just a thought 

[Lewjam]

I mad a gazibo out of a large heavy duty platic sheet, Some wooden staves, Guttering and a water butt in the corner ages ago.  Did the job untill the plumbed water came online.

[Zippy]

We don't know we're brn on our allotment as we have running water from tap stands.  I do have two large water butts to collect rainwater off the shed roof and another one collecting rainwater off the compost bin lids which is where I brew my nettle tea.

There is an extra charge to use a hosepipe and people say they gladly pay the extra as they could never lug water to their plots (15 feet at the most) by watering can like I do!

At my Leicester allotment I had to cart a large plastic barrel down the canal sides to fill from the cut and haul it back up on a sack barrow so I do feel for you guys who have to do similar. I wonder how you manage to keep anything watered sufficiently.

[kari]

I have water butts on my plot, but the water runs out so quickly, so like you I have to carry mine.  I did water changes on my tropical fishtanks yesterday, & all the water was saved in anything from pop bottles, milk bottles etc & then thrown in the wheelbarrow to water last night, thankfully my allotment is less that a couple of minutes walk, so not too bad.

The 4pt milk bottles seem the best containers i've tried so far.

[m1ckz]

ive got 2x1000 ltr ibc tanks ,comes off the stable roof,

[bigben]

I am humbled! Popped onto the allotment last night swiched on the hose and after 10 min my watering  was done! I assumed this was the norm - it must be so much harder for you guys!

[Kagganz]

Thanks for the replies guys and gals,

We do have a brook running alongside the allotments but it is a fair distance from my lottie, one lad who is nearby the brook has a petrol powered water pump pumping water from the brook, and so he can water straight from his hose pipe....
he's on my hit list the blooming show off!    !

.......but like I say I'm a fair distance away from it, my husband aka Heath Robinson agrees the aquaroll could be the way to go, his mum offered him one a few years ago and he wished he could have foreseen needing it now, like I said to him if he was that good at foreseeing the future I'd have him picking my lotto numbers.  

Sooooo it looks like the old milk bottles are the way to go for now, at least alongside the humped back and bow legs I should have the arms of Madonna.....

then again maybe that's not such a good look eh?    

xxx

[ex-cavator]

We do have a brook running alongside the allotments but it is a fair distance from my lottie, one lad who is nearby the brook has a petrol powered water pump pumping water from the brook, and so he can water straight from his hose pipe....
he's on my hit list the blooming show off!    !

Hope he's got an abstraction licence from the Environment Agency 

My lad & I have each got two 25 litre drums we fill and take with us every time we go, & what we don't use straight away we top up the water butt on the plot - soon to be replaced with a 1000 litre IBC container 

[binner]

i un-roll my 50 m hose and turn the tap on :blink:

i can only sympathise with those that have no water on site, we are lucky as we have horse paddocks on ours so we have to have fresh water on site for our horses, but once my shed and green house is up i will be collecting it in baths etc,
i like the idea of putting guttering along the fence

[savbo]

we're so lucky - standpipe at either end of our plot so we can both water at the same time!