Need help with guerilla growing water issue/resivor

Hey guys just needing some help on a watering issue. Last year I had to fill many many milk
jugs and lug water in a fabric laundry sack for about a quarter mile and it was very exhausting
and tedious.

This year to buy me some time and to make it easier on my back i'm wondering how I could
come up with ways to make this task a bit simpler. I'm not looking to do a pump or drip irrigation
just a way to supply water somewhere near my site.

I had a few ideas come through my mind, something as simple as painting a rubber made
container a pretty large one, and just filling my water jugs on site. But still there is the
problem of getting water in it. I've also heard tarps can be used (somehow). If I just placed this
tote somewhere hidden in the bushes beneath neighboring trees in a dense thicket would it collect
enought rainwater to fill my tub and keep me up for a few weeks? I thought maybe if I placed the
the tote out, over time it would gather rainwater sort of like a rain barrell and I could just dip my
jugs down in it walk a few hundred feet and water?

Please post your opions, methods and advice here because it would save so much trouble for me! Last years grow wasnt the best yield and had a few plants to dry up. Seemed the water crystals
helped alot but it seems like they only give ya a couple more days time to play with and they're quiet expensive buying ten or eleven bags ya know. Once again just a way to collect and store a
large amount of water, in a stealth kind of way as the helis fly alot here. Thanks!

Unless you have a ton of rain the Rubbermaid won't fill on it's own unless you direct water into it somehow. But if you had all that rain, you wouldn't need this. You would have to rig a tarp above the container as a funnel. You can also dig a pit and line it with a tarp to create a mini-pond. Don't know how clean this would be. How many plants? Do the many trips with the milk jugs compromise your operational security? Have you in fact confirmed there are not any nearby water sources in any direction? I've done the milk jug route but could make almost unlimited trips to the plants. I just looked on it as exercise. I mean, in the big picture, how important are the plants to you?

here's how we pump water to a tarp well hanging in the trees out side every garden,we can pump 2-300 ft at a time by leapfrogging from tarp to tarp and by going on angles up a steep hill without trying to pump straight uphill ,by angleling your pump and hose ya can go where nobody would ever look and have all the water ya need wood chopping works great cause the stumps and dead trees make alot of holes to stick a tarp full of water here and there where needed . lol....

these where grown on a steep hillside using that watering method

heres a little tip, that will save you hours of hard manual labour. Put your plants in areas closer to water sources. The furthur the distance from water, the longer it takes, eventually taking hours and hours away from your time that could be put to more important things. Study the landscape and look for easy access to water, it will save you a lot of work. and use bigger containers then little milk jugs lol. 5 gallon buckets are sufficient, one in each hand, and get the ones with lids for no spillage.

String is a good way to direct rainwater from the base of branches into a semi burried container or bag well. As long as the string is pitched down, the water will run it. It`s lees noticeable and many different strings can lead to separate or single containers. Nylon wont work well, use kite string or twine. Be careful not to let the string touch the side of the container or it will run down the side instead. For milk jugs, tie it to a stick that comes out a oversized hole in the cap. For large containers, lay the stick(s) across it and tie to the middle.

You get the idea and it don`t take long. Be creative and it wont be seen !i Wildlife will find the water so think it out !i

Thanks guys thats some great info! Im thinking about digging some small pond type resivoirs lined with 5 mil black plastic, also really interested in that string method. The problem with putting plants close to the water sources is that the helicopters fly the hell out of every lake, pond, river and even small streams! Its disgusting! Lol. By the way I was digging a hole in a plot the other night and decided just for a test i dug my hole the normal 3ft wide and instead of 2 ft deep I actually kept digging deeper just to see if it would hold more moisture for less watering. same width only deeper holes. It was a dry night and with my led light I seem liquidy looking stuff getting down into the clay layer and wiped it and it was water. And surely but slowly it appeared again. So could this mean there is an underground water source in that area???