How often are you all watering in this weather?

[WellTidy]

We are in the south east, and I'm finding that everything is suffering in the heat. I have always watered the containers daily, but done the beds twice a week. I've been watering pretty much every evening (8pm ish) since it became hot, and everything is still drooping and wilting and looking pretty sad. It takes me about 45 minutes to water the whole garden and I don't think I am doing enough!

The pots, baskets and containers twice a day. The beds, twice or thrice a week. The lawn is yellow now. I feel guilty watering the lawn, so it gets a sprinkling only once a week.

I’m watering everything every early morning and early evening and it all still seems so dried out!

Aaaaah. I may have to get up even earlier than I do and water first thing as well as in the evenings. It really is super hot, isn't it. Our garden gets a lot of sun, despite being north facing, as it is quite open. I will be better.

Pots daily, no beds here, grass not at all. It will survive and regrow and although it doesn't look pretty it's a huge waste of water doing the grass.

Blimey, I'm only doing my pots every three days. They seem to be OK. They are mostly big, though.

I've left the lawn to go crispy.

I bought half a ton of gravel to mulch my garden. It just water once a week when it is cooler. Pots every night

Pots most mornings. Been mid 20s in the day but often single figures at night. Just the occasional can on a vulnerable patch of alstromeria that had its roots disturbed by taking some rampant bamboo out.

Got a massive mound of (prickly) forget me nots to take down at the front, though. I forgot about them and they went to seed and completely flopped.

Cripsy lawn (it wasn't great to begin with) it'll grow back. Pots of the patio - every night when it's cooled down a bit. Might start doing the mornings too!

I was about to turn my hose on last night when a text pinged from United Utilities………. I felt like I was being watched!

@freudianslurp wow I’m in love with your system!

Pots are being done twice a day here, missed one slot out and everything wilted. We’re averaging around 28/30 each day

I water vegetables and plants in containers every day.
use grey water (bathwater) as am on watermeter.

some plants get droopy in the heat but pick up again once it cools down a bit in the evening.

Good point GardenGeek I used to do this to economise on compost but seem to have gone the other way this year as I had a surplus of compost and was fed up of heavy containers! Need to revert back next year

I'm siphoning off the bath water into tubs and buckets every night and getting up early to do the veg and beds. Pots and containers I do in the morning but late evening too if they seem to need it.

The lawn I ignore. It's yellow and crispy but water is short atm and it'll recover.

I ignore the lawn which is only green where the clover is but do do my pots. Most of my pots have coir matting covers so it stops any water from going straight back into the air. The blueberries get only rainwater so my water barrels are now solely for them - I don't know how long this dry spell will last. In the beds I water things that have gone in this year but nothing else.

Everything except the grass daily. So far it’s looking good.

I had never thought of using grey water for watering.
How do people siphon off the bath water?

Are there systems I can invorpprate to ensure shower and bath water go into a water butt?

I use a hose from the bath, through the window and into tubs. My water butt has been empty for a fortnight now.

You can attach the hose to an outside tap and turn it on long enough to fill the hose. When you turn it off, the siphon will start. Or you can suck the water through yourself to start a siphon.

I have about 200 plants in pots, and am watering most of them twice a day, the smaller ones three times. We don't have a hosepipe as there's no outside tap so I'm having to carry umpteen watering cans instead.