If you are on a hosepipe ban, are you complying?

[FindingMeno]

Just curious really - if you are, will you continue to, whatever, even if it decimates everything? Is your garden small or big?

For transparency, I am ( grumpily) complying, but don't know what state the garden will be in before long, which makes me very sad. My garden is mid sized I would say.

actually using that link upthread no ban in my area

It would be awful and chaotic.

I am but can’t say the same about DH

I am complying, but using hosepipe to fill the watering can. It all feels a bit pointless as my garden has died a death this year but I’ll keep ok doing it in the hope that it revives eventually.

I don’t see why not. Surely no different to using your kitchen sink to fill it. The problem with hoses is that most people don’t use short bursts and water the grass too. I presume that’s what they are trying to avoid.

No. We have I think a big garden,200 ft.6 water butts, almost empty..pond with fish,you can't use chlorinated water,it's either from the butts,or left in every container to dechlorinate for 48 hours. The butts are strategically placed all the way down to the veg plot at the bottom,to make life a bit easier. My garden faces NW and yet a lot of stuff has badly wilted. Veg takes priority. Am now saving grey water from the shower
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I’m watering my trees planted last autumn and begrudgingly using the watering can for everything else.

You have water in your water butt? I'm jealous, ours ran out weeks ago.

yes we do and yes I am. Fortunately the garden is small and I have two watering cans but I am cursing walking all the way up the side of the house and back down again to fill them. Won't do me any harm mind. I could say we're exempt as we're on the priority register but seeing as the person it's needed for doesn't water the garden and I'm perfectly capable that would just be a piss take really.

using a hose uses 150-170 litres per 10 mins of use.

Semi complying. We have a hose with a trigger so I’m using that for pots as it’s easier to direct the water. I wasted more when trying to water with the watering can. I’ve let my annuals in pots die so am only watering the perennials and shrubs and roses. And a tree we are trying to save.

I have planted a drought resistant Mediterranean gravel garden at the side and we have some soaker hoses in the beds there to trickle water them as that is allowed.

DH is watering his vegetables with the trigger hose too. Again apparently allowed. Pots at the front of the house I’m doing with random rescued water.

I am washing my hair less and having super speedy showers in an effort to balance it a bit! Also not using our waste disposal unit in the kitchen sink as it uses quite a bit of water. (We are not on mains sewage before anyone says we shouldn’t have one! We have a waste treatment system in the garden.).

I don’t really do SM and don’t take any papers.

Thanks for the link.

We got an email

Some people got a phone call!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ey8lv5jno

I wonder if it’s less desirable for house buyers to have a south facing gardening now?

In Ireland where there’s also a ban and am fed up trying to be diplomatic to people talking about their paddling pools and how hard it is watering their lawns (edited as phone decided flowers!) . If one more person goes on about the government telling them what to do, nanny state etc I’m honestly going to lose it!!!! People are so bloody selfish!!

What I want to know is:

What happened to the oceans of water which fell from the sky almost every day between October and May? Why were the reservoirs not filled to the brim? Do they think we have forgotten about that, while they moralise about the “worst drought ever”? A phrase as familiar as “worst NHS winter ever”, which we heard last year. and the year before. And the year before. And the year before. Will we see an “uptick” (another scary buzzword) in rain in October?

This!

Oh same - I’m very grateful for the support and don’t want to take advantage. Yes just did two cans from it for the front garden, we have a tap in the back so I use that for the pots. Trees are being left to fend for themselves 😢

I use watering cans all the time anyway because the foxes will bite holes in a hose pipe if left unfurled and I can't be bothered to unroll and re-roll a hose pipe every day. Plus much of the year I use water from rain butts.

Yes. Filling up buckets of water from my outside tap. Alternating with a neighbour as it’s a shared garden

In my area its also illegal to fill up your can using a hosepipe!

Yes, we're complying, but the garden is brown and crispy.
We did our best with watering cans at the start of the ban, but it's difficult - we have to use small cans that we can fill in and lift up out of the kitchen sink and it was time consuming and sweaty. Gradually more and more things have curled up and died anyway and we've basically given up - aside from filling the bird bath. Guess we'll see what we're left with once the heat is over.

Absolutely not. I pay all my taxes and will use water if and when I need it.

No, not complying . I water my garden once a day in the evening. It’s not a large garden particularly and I don’t feel one bit of anguish about it

We’re not on a ban but I’m being careful with how much water I give the garden. I’m only hose watering the willow trees that are dying and occasionally sprinkling the lawn.

How many millions do water chief execs earn, again? Which could be used for repairing leaks?