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!

No rain for 2 months here.
I carry bath water down stairs throughout the day and water the garden with that. It's our first summer here and there aren't too many plants.

Going away for 2 weeks in August - hoping for a bit of rain for my tomatoes and sunflowers

We had a big storm with the sort of rain that turns roads into rivers, on Monday night. First time our water butt has been full since it was set up in late April.

Another here who'd like to know whether bulbs in pots need a bit of water ?

My grass has big square cracks .

Buddleia drooping .

My hydrangea droops at the sound of a sunny weather forecast - I don't know why .
Well I get that it likes a lot of water but other stuff in that shady bed including a a fern in that bed seem ok .

And I'm careful to drench when I water .

All my pots have water gel granules added to the mixture and have a top dressing to conserved moisture. In the borders my clematis and honeysuckle are suffering, and some roses are mildewed, although I'm trying to keep a lid on this by foliar spraying when watering and it seems to be helping. She said hopefully.

Not strictly a propos, but last evening I watched a sparrow giving itself a dust bath in a formerly permanent puddle area in NDNs garden.

It got me thinking - in the last few summers this would not have been possible.

It's actually raining - well, dripping a bit and evaporating the minute it hits the ground.. If it carries on like this all night, we might get a half a millimetre or so in the rain gauge by morning

No rain here for about two months. I’m still watering most pots daily (they’re mostly large, glazed and all mulched with gravel) but have more or less given up on the beds. I had been watering the new planting but from now on it’ll have to fend for itself. The lawn looks and smells like straw.

I checked the rain gauge this morning, we had a whole 2 millimetres of rain last night. Barely enough to even measure.

We gave up on trying to keep our garden alive in this weather! With global warming making our summers hotter and longer, it's time to consider artificial grass! Absolute minimal effort on our behalf and yet we can enjoy our garden all year round! Definitely recommend you make the switch but make sure you go with someone who has a good guarantee so you can be sure the turf won't melt in the heat and sun either - we went with Maze Grass (10 year guarantee) and can recommend them highly!

Doing my pots and tubs daily.
Our beds have nothing in them yet as we are doing major gardening work next year.
Lawn can just live with it. Sprinkling lawns seems a waste of water.

My veg garden is still getting watered daily - so I have food when prices in the shops skyrocket this autumn.

Lawn will recover when rain comes.
Water table is high enough that all trees and big shrubs are OK

Specialist ornamentals get what they need

Officially Gave Up today. It is becoming pointless. Things are so out of synch, they will have flowered already or won't flower as they're too stressed. I will preserve the crucial stuff, but the rest will have to take its chance.

The line in the sand was today's highly anticipated storms. We got 1tbs in a garden bucket...again! (Southern Hants). As a gardener, sometimes you need to know when to stop throwing good money and time - after bad. Enough of the daily 'water everything!' (Not seen the water bill yet.. 😮)

We are off for a fortnight in a week. It cannot be helped, some years weren't 'meant to be'.

Pretty much my thinking blush .

I was out yesterday with secateurs cutting wilting stuff back .The buddlei ( I know ,I know ,basically a weed ) got the chop .
As did my lychnis .

Blushah
Did you get the overnight rain? My garden is already looking better for it and my water buts are no longer empty

I rushed out this morning to look- the bottom of my garden trug was covered, and there's 3" in my water butt...!

Sadly, today's rain, so far, lasted 2 minutes - Eastleigh was drenched! Eagerly watching the radar in case any of the rain sweeping up the country from Cornwall manages a detour...

Due to chuck it down tomorrow !

Its strange to have the wind back again as well - there had hardly been any during th eheatwave

Tipping down now, and the forecast here is for lots more rain tomorrow.

Its strange to have the wind back again as well - there had hardly been any during th eheatwave

We had a lot of wind in the NW during the early part of the heatwave - I noted the 'dessicating winds' in a post early this month. Easterlies rather than the usual westerlies.