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The hosepipe ban

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tanith Mon 28-May-12 10:17:19

I have been using my water butt to water my pots this last few weeks but now its nearly empty and I was wondering how I'll manage bringing innumerable watering can fulls down the garden so I thought I'd just take a look at the restrictions and found to my joy that temporary displays and pots of plants can be watered by hose as long as its either on a water meter or hand held for the duration of the watering. Thats going to save me a hell of a lot of water carrying , the trouble with water butts are they are useless once they are empty, having prayed for the rain to stop do we now pray for it to start again.. I much prefer not to use tap water if I can help it. Shame about pools though my grands keep asking is the pool up Nanny? Its disappointing but necessary I guess.

I'm in the South East but thought this might help someone else with a ban in place , not all water companies have the same conditions so its best to check

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gracesmum Mon 04-Jun-12 09:40:44

A good soaking is what our garden got/is getting. If this drought goes on we'll all have webbed feet.

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JessM Mon 04-Jun-12 09:58:29

grin
perfect day to dig up something that needs to be removed. Once our clay dries out there is not hope.

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granjura Mon 04-Jun-12 11:14:21

Left the car out in the downpour - lovely and clean, no scrubbing, and for free.
Sunshine coming out now, hurrah.

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gracesmum Mon 04-Jun-12 11:53:16

Thought I might do some weeding (I know the road to hell is paved etc etc etc) but there's the rain on again sad or is it smile?

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AlieOxon Tue 05-Jun-12 18:02:07

It is here now.
But I got some stuff into the trench for the runners, and today I've taken a piece of the leaky hose and drilled small holes through it so it will leak more - this is to go in the trench and the beans will go in the top layer, get watered from underneath.
Meamwhile it rains and I repot tomatoes.

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nanaej Tue 05-Jun-12 22:36:07

My cut flower seedlings are drowning in this rain sodden drought! confused

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JessM Thu 07-Jun-12 09:02:28

regarding the fish/heron/pond issue - I looked out of my kitchen window. Neighbour's garage roof is maybe 12 metres away. Enormous heron. Crow trying to send it off. I don't think i have seen a heron so close before - the crow was about the size of its head! Suspect fish numbers down... It would have been better if DH had never cleared the green soup algae away with some clever product.
Top engineers have been talking about water, see link. Not sure how you could have a separate metering for using outdoor hoses, but engineers are clever. But wouldn't people just attach hoses to their kitchen tap, like we did in times of yore?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18342309

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goldengirl Thu 07-Jun-12 14:53:28

Perhaps we should go down to the Central Line with our buckets! One of the managers was speaking on the news at lunch time and said in a round about way that his team had been checking the pipes underground and this particular one wasn't right. It gave up the ghost and the water just flooded out. This begs the question why wasn't it tested on a regular basis? If it has been tested on a regular basis, how come it wasn't spotted as I would have thought it takes quite a while for a pipe to get to that stage! How many other pipes are in a similar condition, I wonder?
Transport in London is going through a very difficult time at present - look at the fiasco at the weekend, with a Sunday service running and all those people needing to get home - and the dreaded Olympics are looming large.........

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