Hosepipe ban

Kath_T

hiya

with the recent announcement of a hosepipe ban for the north west I'm at a loss of how I can water my garden. I have no water butt as my downpipes are all the old cast iron ones and my garage where I could put plastic guttering has hanging baskets all along. I have spent hours and hours on my garden and don't want everything to die now I can't water them. Is old bath water ok to use or will the bubble bath i use in my 3 year olds bath kill my flowers and veg? what about old dish washing water?

Sorry if this is a silly question!

TIA of any replys x

Antispam

You can use a watering can, Bath water or grey water is fine

Kay_Peel

I found this 'spoof' article about the hosepipe ban in the North West

Warning! Don't press the link if you object to mild vulgar language.

It made me, a Greater Manchester resident, laugh anyway!



By the way, I only use rainwater and grey water (baths and washing up bowls) on my garden - never fresh water from a tap.

Kath_T

Thank you for your replies, I had no idea you could fill a watering can from your hosepipe and use that!! My garden WILL survive :j

I will also use my daughters bath water so the plants will even smell nice but here's hoping my potatoes won't taste of apple and watermelon :eek::eek:

thanks again xx

janibrown

I have to say I live outside Manchester and my garden is so dry I have had to water it (i have 3 vegetable plots) the grass is sooooo dry the soil has started to crack open and some of the cracks are over an inch wide and over 4 inches long :eek::eek::eek: have not watered the lawn just my vegetables, the hosepipe ban wont mean I use less water it will just take me longer to water my vege , you may grumble at me for watering but at least i am saving airmiles by not buying vege that has been flown hundreds of miles to get to a supermarket so I am trying to do my bit for the planet :D:D:D:D
Anyway we probably wont get anymore sun just rain now so the ban should not last for long I hope :D:D

Ebe_Scrooge

For what it's worth, my grandad was a passionate gardner, and even rigged up a fancy diverter contraption that routed the water from the kitchen sink and bath drains into a series of irrigation pipes under his garden - whenever it was dry he flicked the switch and all the waste water went on to the garden.

He also said that if watering very dry soil, he actually added a little bit of washing up liquid, as it acted like a wetting agent and helped it soak in better.

That may or may not have been true, but I can say that his garden was immaculate, and his lawn put the local bowling green to shame. So second hand bathwater can't hurt the plants that much :-)

davetrousers

Kath_T wrote: »

I had no idea you could fill a watering can from your hosepipe and use that!!

But then you're using a hosepipe!

Fill the watering can from your garden tap.

~~Diane~~

janibrown wrote: »

I have to say I live outside Manchester and my garden is so dry I have had to water it (i have 3 vegetable plots) the grass is sooooo dry the soil has started to crack open and some of the cracks are over an inch wide and over 4 inches long :eek::eek::eek: have not watered the lawn just my vegetables, the hosepipe ban wont mean I use less water it will just take me longer to water my vege , you may grumble at me for watering but at least i am saving airmiles by not buying vege that has been flown hundreds of miles to get to a supermarket so I am trying to do my bit for the planet :D:D:D:D
Anyway we probably wont get anymore sun just rain now so the ban should not last for long I hope :D:D

I live in the East Midlands and my lawns look they have the San Andreas Fault running through them:( 1 lawn is new, only sowed seed at the begining of the year and the poor thing is suffering.

chrisjw37

Why don't the silly !!!!!!s design proper water traps to catch rainfall?

I've been to Spain, its hot, its dry
they never have water problems

george2000

move to scotland, plenty of rain here lol

savemoney

Its usually okay in NW but thsi year the rain has been else where like south of France, traditionally NW is a good place

george2000 wrote: »

move to scotland, plenty of rain here lol