I'm sure you are right @Redwing , l looked at their website not long after your original post and l'm sure that's what it said. Did the links l posted earlier help at all ?
I have now devised a system, with Mr Redwing's help involving a wheelbarrow, bucket and watering can; it works but I was quite hot and sweaty after watering the pots this morning. Some of my pots are quite a long way from the tap; hence the wheelbarrow. Mr Redwing even devised a lid for it so it doesn't slosh out.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
Redwing,do your watering at night, pointless in this heat. We go out at dusk. I filled 4 of our 6water butts up on Thursday. They are dotted round the garden. I also moved the pots into the shade. A lot of shrubs are really suffering, ferns, viburnum hydrangeas, astilbes, brown and crispy, and the heucheras
I'm pretty sure you'd need to use a short piece of hosepipe to fill it from the tap. Strictly speaking I don't think that's allowed - but it would be a mean spirited neighbour or very officious jobsworth who would not recognise that you're not wasting or using more water but, instead, that this is you trying to do 'your bit' within your physical limitations.
The water companies have said that the purpose of hosepipe bans is not just about stopping people wasting water in gardens / washing cars etc but is also about bringing it home to people that drinking water is a finite resource. They want us all to cut back and are only really interested in those selfish individuals who blatantly and persistently flout the regulations.
Maybe what I'm suggesting is morally wrong. I think it's common sense. Of course, we could reach a stage (as they have in parts of France) where ALL watering of ornamental plants is banned - which removes all ambiguity. I hope we don't!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Allotment Boy,I tried to find something like this to water.our large garden. Asked on here, asked the folk in the stores where they purchased the ones they used,with the curly hose.found one place in the UK' they only supply the stores. Expect one of the collapsible camping water holders would do as well.
Drat! I used to have a hand propelled one of those when we had the smallholding … jolly useful it was too … I also had a bigger one to be hauled by a sturdy pony … but the sturdy Exmoor pony wasn’t that co-operative … in fact he was probably the most uncooperative pony I’ve ever met … you must remember Scamp @WonkyWomble ?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Topbird said: [...] Of course, we could reach a stage (as they have in parts of France) where ALL watering of ornamental plants is banned - which removes all ambiguity. I hope we don't!
Currently it's not "parts of France", it's the majority of French départements. There is no "hose ban" as such in France. The restrictions in the use of drinkable/tap water as delivered by the water companies are not concerned with the use of a hose or watering-can, they are only concerned with what you use that tap water for, i.e. household consumption, or washing your car, watering your lawn or your vegetables, etc.
For all those départements declared in a crisis state, tap-water is totally banned for watering your lawn or flower-beds, shrubs, or even plants in pots and containers! Watering of the "jardins potagers" (vegetable plots) is (usually) banned during the day, allowed from 8 pm to 8 am.
Something that many people do not realize is that, in a crisis situation, watering restrictions apply not only to tap-water but also to private wells! The only kind of water you are allowed to use in a crisis is rain-water collected from your roof.
Another difference is that, as far as I understand, water restrictions in the UK are decided by the water companies, whereas in France the decision is taken in each département by the Préfet (the département representative of the Governement).
Attached is the map of water restrictions in French départements on August 4th captured on this Le Monde newspaper page.
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Did the links l posted earlier help at all ?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Planit-Products-H2GO-Bag-Construction/dp/B0027U95UW
I'm pretty sure you'd need to use a short piece of hosepipe to fill it from the tap. Strictly speaking I don't think that's allowed - but it would be a mean spirited neighbour or very officious jobsworth who would not recognise that you're not wasting or using more water but, instead, that this is you trying to do 'your bit' within your physical limitations.
The water companies have said that the purpose of hosepipe bans is not just about stopping people wasting water in gardens / washing cars etc but is also about bringing it home to people that drinking water is a finite resource. They want us all to cut back and are only really interested in those selfish individuals who blatantly and persistently flout the regulations.
Maybe what I'm suggesting is morally wrong. I think it's common sense. Of course, we could reach a stage (as they have in parts of France) where ALL watering of ornamental plants is banned - which removes all ambiguity. I hope we don't!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.