Rainwater harvesting

Check this link; there are a few suggestions.

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=5126&highlight=collecting+rainwater

Not allowed a shed?  How....strange!

We aren't allowed to use hoses for watering, but can happily top up our butts with them.  With only 2 taps for the whole site it's one heck of a stretch, but with a bit of luck we will only need to do it a couple of times a year.

For those who are not allowed sheds and can't collect that way, you could rig up a cheap (mine was £6 from Asda I think) plastic Gazebo, and butcher it a bit to have the roof hung upside down, with a drain hole into a butt.  I haven't done this but it would seem to me to give at least as much surface area as a shed, if not more.  As a bonus, you can fix the gazebo and dig in the shade in the hot summer months!

For best results, you might like to link multiple butts together to get maximum collection in the rainy months.  Old bins would work too.  I think it's more important to work out how you are going to store your water, than how you are going to collect it - there's plenty of it at the right times of year, but if you are limited to one butt then a week of sun and you could easily run dry.

Yes, no sheds, it's a bummer at times but we can see our allotment as it's just accross the local playing field from our house so it's not too bad. I don't know whether they've actually ever had sheds and had anybody break in or whether they're just erring on the side of caution, does keep the 'visual imact' low though
What's more of a bummer is that we have storage for 700litres of rainwater at home, fed directly from the guttering downpipe, and it's toppers at the moment. If it was lighter to shift we'd be taking it with us :?  

do you have a towbar on your car? check the ex-MoD auctions, perhaps you could buy a surplus water bowser  fill it from your home harvesting system and tow it around

im looking to expand my harvesting system. I have ~600l capacity but want to run a rain flush system for the toilets, so need an extra 1000-2000l. The flush system is easy and cheap, finding the water containers isnt! :cry:

trouble with the ebay ones is they are rarely near me. Aunti just put me on to a company that has them (IBCs) at good price in wales, and deliver, but it depends on the delivery costs.

There are a few food factories near me, im going to get cheeky and see if i can scrounge

Theres one plant that has hundreds of IBCs stacked up that i can see from the road.

I like the look of those big fruit juice tanks as well

Some councils do subsidise them. Not sure if ours do but our last one did.

And I don't think No.10 would be able to do anything. You'd have to petition your county council. Worth asking.

Rob