So cross, my poor dried up pots….

Peat free compost imo is totally rubbish and a waste of money. Plants and seeds don’t grow in it.

I don’t think there is a hosepipe ban where I live but I don’t have an outside tap so fill several dustbins with water using a hosepipe so I can access water outside. I’m having some plumbing done next week due to a leak and will have to drain my whole system. Plan to fill
the dustbins, buckets, bath etc so as not to waste the water but, again will have to use the hosepipe. Hope I don’t get into trouble ( I do everything possible to save water including using the bath water to flush the loo etc).

I’ve realised that everything dries up because I’m now using peat free compost. In the past if I’ve gone away I’ve put my pots in plastic storage boxes which I’ve filled with water but one time it rained non stop and everything drowned.

I have given up watering anything not in pots except the lobelia cardinallis and my heuchera. The pots I use harvested water only. A crying shame. When I look at photos of what it looked like last year I could cry.

Hose pipe ban here in Norfolk. We're supposed to disconnect the hose completely so we're not tempted. Washing up water and watering cans only. I'm afraid I've had to choose which to help possibly live and which to leave to die.

At least I don't have to worry about cutting the grass!

Am caring for my pots as much as possible here in my back yard in London but some plants have dried up and am not able to rescue them.
In this heat is very difficult to water enough without over watering or not watering for fear of this and the plant dying.

Did you actually show her how to do it? And it has been extremely hot.

Just because elder sister did a good job previously…..

Our GD looked after our greenhouse when we were away, told her to keep picking the tomatoes and cucumbers etc.

None picked.

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