Water Saving

[Two_Sheds]

And you say you suck that water to get it going!!!

No, Bob Flowerdew says sucking is for amateurs...grown ups fill the hose from the tap! Just look at that green water, yuk (I couldn't trust myself not to swallow...I ain't got a gag reflex )

[nick the grief]

I must have know a lot of amateurs in my youth

[Two_Sheds]

Lol !!!!!!!!!

[rustylady]

The only thing you suck up a tube to get the flow started is home-made wine.

[muckdiva]

As things currently are on our allotment you are not allowed any sheds/greenhouses. I want to do all I can to harvest rainwater but surely there must be other ways if you have no guttering to connect to?

Just having butts dotted about is the obvious choice for many, but does anyone know of any other cheaper ways?

I have the same problem on my new lottie Heywayne - let me know if you find any answers. As a stop gap until we build a shed, I have a couple of water butts and was going to put a piece of corrugated roofing linking the two so that any rainwater collecting on the roofing will hopefully flow into the barrels, but this will probably take ages to collect much. If anyone else has any ideas, they'd be very welcome here...

[dexterdoglancashire]

Is there any way you could transport water from your house to your lottie?

I've got a 5 gallon plastic container from the local camping shop, fill it up with water then put it on my little suitcase trolley, put it in the car, and at the other end, wheel my little, well, big container to my water butt and then fill it up. (just call me "trolley dolly!!").

If you could rig up some sort of siphon thing (there is another thread about this) you could use your used bath water to fill your container and use that.

Do let me know how you get on.

Bernie aka Dexterdog

[Raised Beds]

I found this brilliant idea on another allotment.

[sewer rat]

HeyWayne
If these barrels have only held honey as they claim, no reason why they couldn't be used. Each barrel will have two caps / holes in the top - one for extraction and a breather hole opposite it. You can even buy hand pumps designed specifically for these barrels.

[seasprout]

Butts.

Iv'e seen a website advertised somewhere where they are selling those blue barrels and these big square thingys as recycled water butts, I think they are charging quite a lot including postage.

Will have a look around in my Mags later and try to find it.

[seasprout]

Here tis...

http://www.dvfuels.co.uk/index.asp

[Snadger]

I found this brilliant idea on another allotment.

What a tremendously innovative idea!

I have eight blue water buts dotted around my allotment which are a bit of an eyesore.
I also have a huge pile of timber that I have collected which is also an eyesore!

Eight little Japanese Pagoda's would look rather fetching methinks and would also solve the poblem of filling the buts!

[compostman]

HeyWayne
You can even buy hand pumps designed specifically for these barrels.

Can anyone tell me where I can get one of these pumps. my local recycling group is flogging off cleaned out blue barrels (£5 each) but they don't have tap holes.
cheers
Compo
ps does anyone else have trouble with slugs eating the leaves on rhubarb, or have i been singled out for special attention, they don't touch the neighbours plant.(sob)