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Drier conditions & water restrictions - what to do?
I've heard various dire predictions about dry conditions becoming more
prevalent, water shortages, hosepipe bans and even severe water use resrictions. I live in the South-East where we seem to have much more of a problem with this. One person I spoke to said they would only plant drought-resistant plants now. I've been looking at what is available that is said to have greater drought resistance than average. One email from Crocus gave this url for a list of such plants: http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/se...yID=0&ValueID= &ValueID=&ValueID=&ValueID=&ValueID=33&ValueID=&Va lueID=&x=23&y=13&affiliate=c u112 which is a very long url! It leads to over four hundred search results. Some of these seem to be wrong where for example the plant is described as liking moist soil and needing watering in dry periods (not just whilst getting established), but I would hope that most are correct. We have a hosepipe ban here commencing in April and some nearby SE counties are considering more severe restrictions on water use. I'm getting a water butt installed and will be pumping any used bathwater intro it and pouring water from washing-up into it too. I wish my water butt was already installed- we seem to have many days of rain commencing today.... You can get quite good weather forecast information from the Metcheck web site- even a week or so ahead, which is much further ahead than the usual weather forecats sites: http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/HOME/ Has anyone got any good ideas for dealing with drier conditions, water restrictions etc? -- VX (remove alcohol for email) |
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