Water Shortages

[mikebratcher69]

I've just had to fit a water sump to drain the f***ing water off the garden when it rains, because the soil, about 1 foot of it sits on solid clay and if you walk on the grass its like the somme in an hour.
It seems to be working fine, so I'll dig a trench and line the bottom of the garden with them so theorecicaly I'll have a lined trench with a planked lid to let water drain in 20 feet long by 1 foot deep by 1 foot wide.
Not for drinking though because it'll have chickn shit in it and all sorts of garden crap, but if I instal some sort of hand pump it'll probably do for watering the veg, and I'm hoping it will be good growing water with it havingthe chook poop in..