Garden without tap or downpipe
Last post 28-08-2009 11:24 AM by Natalyah44. 10 replies.
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27/08/2008 04:43 PM
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- Vicki_S
- Mid Devon
- 27 Aug 2008
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Hi, anyone got any advice how I can have a well watered garden when I have neither an outdoor tap nor downpipe (to attach to a waterbutt)? I have a first floor flat so don't really want to be going up and down the stairs constantly to fill up my watering can... Thanks all.
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27/08/2008 05:12 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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Do you have a shed or greenhouse in the garden? If so you can attach guttering to them with a downpipe to feed a water butt. Failing that you can get a long hosepipe and connect it to your kitchen tap but it will mean having to throw the hosepipe out of the window each time you use it.
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27/08/2008 05:39 PM
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- Susiq
- Northumberland
- 16 Feb 2008
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Have you any large recepticles you could place outside and collect rain water in? Please don't tell my you don't have any rain down there - we've been deluged!
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27/08/2008 06:52 PM
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- Figwort
- Peterborough
- 20 Dec 2007
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Or try growing lots of drought-resistant plants which, after initially watering in, shouldn't really need much in the way of water. I haven't watered my drought-resisting gravel bed since it was planted two years ago. Mind you, we have had wet summers! Or try digging in water-retaining granules when you plant - they'll make the best use of any available water. The best ones are Broadleaf P4 from Greenacres Horticultural Supplies.
There are never any problems in gardening - just opportunities!
Geoff Hodge
www.gardenforum.demon.co.uk
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27/08/2008 08:54 PM
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- Digger
- Northern UK
- 18 Jul 2005
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Or you could buy a long hosepipe with a tap on the business end, connect it to your sink and chuck the pipe out of the window into the garden.
digger 
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27/08/2008 08:57 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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And hope no-one is underneath when it gets chucked out
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28/08/2008 02:36 AM
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If hitting people really is a potential problem - throw out a piece of string (after attaching one end to something in the flat), tie it to the hosepipe and then pull the hosepipe up to the flat.
Or just shout a warning before feeding the hose out the window/off the balcony
or...
er...
that's it.
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Ow! My most of me!
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28/08/2008 07:26 AM
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You can't - but Britain is not a dry place and if you plant trees, shrubs, the tougher herbaceous plants and bulbs they will look after themselves. Plant small specimens in autumn. Avoid veg, bedding and containers. If it is any consolation 90 percent of water used by gardeners is wasted because it is badly applied, applied at the wrong stage of plant growth, too little is given or too much is used, given to plants that won't benefit, applied too late and too early. Boggy
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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21/06/2009 04:12 PM
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How about you get a water-butt, and fill that from a hose at appropriate times?
You could then use the water in the butt as required, without the exhausting climbs.
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21/06/2009 07:51 PM
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I recycle my grey water using a 'droughtbuster' gizmo which in effect allows me to pump or siphon the grey water from my bathroom or kitchen into a water barrel out back without lugging it through the house. Mine is all ground floor, and this gizmo apparently works even better from an upper floor.
One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.
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28/08/2009 11:24 AM
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- Natalyah44
- USA
- 28 Aug 2009
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