@gumbo: if you look at the link I gave, it talks about the problem of building raised platform that is sturdy for 2,287 pounds of water. That's the only reason I don't already have them, trying to figure that out.
They come with holes that you can attach down spout to and attach hose to. (For $20 extra you can get a garden hose adapter) :
(They call these 275 gallon IBC totes and they come in food grade or not food grade)
I did pull some things (e.g. tomato plants) and let some planted seeds go. But I did keep watering the things that were doing best: peppers, okra, squash, basil and other herbs. But I looked at the weather forecast again now-- still ZERO rain in ten day forecast and still above 90 every single day.
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So I still may have to let more die....
By the end of the ten day forecast period, which will be past the fall equinox!, we should normally be barely into the 80's, much less 90's.
And this is now going on so long that not only is the late summer garden ruined, we may not have much fall garden either. Normally I would be planting seeds for fall garden by the end of Aug. But I can't plant seeds til the weather breaks and by then it will be so late. I can plant seeds for things to over winter, but not for fall.... First fall frost is expected first to second week in November.