I don't really get why we have this constant background whine about needing to attract young people to be interested in gardening. Why? People find their own way to it or they don't - it doesn't affect the state of the nation, only the bank balances of the businesses that sell tat in garden centres and media outlets that need to keep their audiences up. There are much bigger things to worry about - not enough people training to be nurses or teachers or carers is a far greater concern. Now if you want me to worry about the fact that younger people can't buy houses or get long term rentals so they don't engage with a garden, then I'll discuss those concerns but not because they may come to like gardening.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Just finished watering the patio plants with a watering can. I don't think I used any less water than with the hose - possibly a bit more.🙄
Are you still on a ban? All my water butts here are overflowing
I've been using the small water butt to preheat paddling pool water* for the kids as it gets hot quickly in the sun. It's making me think about investing in a solar shower as the water was bathwater warm on a good day. If I could heat the bag in the greenhouse I'd probably get free warm water for plenty of showers as long as I was happy to wash in the middle of the day.
*the water gets used on the garden afterward.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I've been watering with cans too, and it certainly uses more than drip irrigation for containers and strategically-positioned seep hoses for new planting in the ground. But rules is rules. So far I've been using water from the butts but they won't last long if we don't get decent rain. I'm trying to get OH to give me a hand to rig up a hose to syphon bath/shower water into the butt at the back of the house for the next day's watering but sometimes it's like talking to the wall.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I've been watering with cans too, and it certainly uses more than drip irrigation for containers and strategically-positioned seep hoses for new planting in the ground. But rules is rules. So far I've been using water from the butts but they won't last long if we don't get decent rain. I'm trying to get OH to give me a hand to rig up a hose to syphon bath/shower water into the butt at the back of the house for the next day's watering but sometimes it's like talking to the wall.
If you own a water butt, you can connect a hosepipe to that.
However, you can not fill up any water butt or container using a hosepipe.
I tried that @Hostafan1 - there's not enough pressure to send water from the butt through a hose with a gun on it (so that I don't waste water moving from one plant to the next) and even without the gun it doesn't work unless the whole length of the hose is pretty much down below the level of the water in the butt. As soon as it's lifted up to water a hanging basket or to get to the back of a border, it stops. Which when I think about it, is just basic physics - water doesn't flow uphill without some help. And some of the new stuff that needs watering is in a slightly higher section of ground. So lugging cans it must be, for now.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
If you own a water butt, you can connect a hosepipe to that.
However, you can not fill up any water butt or container using a hosepipe.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/garden/1650964/Hosepipe-ban-2022-exemptions-full-list
Now you're just being silly
why is it that some folk think they can avoid being left behind by trying to stop the bus, rather than by getting on board … 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.