Topic: What are your allotment rules on water?

[Pink Fingers]

Luckily, we seem to get away with it.  I only watered once last year and that was to settle in some new cabbage plants. 

[keyhole-kate]

there are a number of water tanks with taps on at our council run site. this year we have been sent a letter telling us that every plot will now have to pay £5 per year for water which i think is a bit steep, we already pay £25 for the plot. we have several water butts so don't use the tanks very often. i think now i'm being charged i will be more likely to get the hose pipe out and get my money's worth!  >:(

[iain j]

The very first allotment I ever had had taps on i think there were 3 to 4 taps on the site but not sure how many allotments there were but hosepipes were allowed and as far as I know  it wasn't metered.

[lewic]

I would happily pay another £20 a year to have clean water on site, just so we had somewhere to wash hands and clean cups, cutlery and seed trays, even if you couldnt attach a hose to the tap.

Am thinking of getting one of these large capacity water carriers for caravanners  http://www.aquaroll.com/english/aquaroll.html
but they are not cheap. It is my birthday coming up soon though..  It would have to be rolled about half a mile each way to be filled up, unless I can bribe someone in a nearby house with the promise of free veg!

[iain j]

The very first allotment I ever had had taps on i think there were 3 to 4 taps on the site but not sure how many allotments there were but hosepipes were allowed and as far as I know  it wasn't metered.

I think I paid £13 per yr but that was 10 yr ago