MM wrote:
On Sun, 15 May 2005 17:21:50 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

MM wrote:
I can't visualise the quantity. Is it a lot? It's 219 UK gallons,
but that is still a quantity I can't really get my head around.
How
much would I use watering the garden? 20 minutes with a spray
head
on a hose over approx 75 square meters, that is.

I wouldn't water my garden that way,

Why not? It's too laborious with the watering can, even if I do
have a
nice galvanised one and not a horrid plasticky one.

Well, I've never gardened over there in the dry east, so you may need
to apply more than a grain of salt to my remarks, which may be plain
rubbish in your situation. But (as I think I've said before on urg) I
don't much hold with watering plants in the open ground at all, once
they're established. So, apart from obvious things like lettuce, or
hydrangeas (which I've never grown), which have to be kept going all
the time, only sensitive characters get a drink from me in dry
spells. I believe in watering these individually to make sure they
get enough to get to the roots. A twenty-minute spray job, even over
quite a small area, may not be much of a help -- but of course it
depends on what you're growing.

--
Mike.