I understand that buying a water butt at the moment is not that easy due to demand. That is good news as more people are trying to save water.Having rain is great but collecting it in water butts means less strain on our tap water.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
We’ve had our first rain since my 70 th ruined birthday barbecue in June .Really happy to see it but ,we are going for a beach holiday in Norfolk soon .You can’t please all of the people all of the time 😊
Don’t worry about packing … we’re very informal in Norfolk 😉
So did we though not a deluge ... until this afternoon, proper heavy rain and a bit of thunder. I only have one water butt and about a dozen 5L plastic bottles filled up plus 2 watering cans and a big plastic trough.
Someone recently said on the forum that the way to bring on rain is to announce a hosepipe ban. Well, for London, this seems to have worked. Thames Water announced the ban at 11am today. The rain started at 2pm and built into a full storm with torrrential rain by 3pm - the first of the year.
We had rain. Great slow drizzle for the morning and then the heavens opened with hail, thunder and lightening for the rest of the day. The wind was very strong as well. Thankfully the next day we had more "slow" rain which as others have said has made the butts fill.The plants are very grateful as we are.
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I was in London when it poured down for almost two hours yesterday, got home to Kent to find we'd had virtually nothing.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/virtually-naked-man-found-asleep-on-car-cromer-9209926
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
we had 1” rain yesterday, but no rain today. Nevertheless the garden looks much better.
I ♥ my garden.
We're forecast some tomorrow tho...we'll see.