Hooray! It started here on Saturday evening. pretty heavy. I was so glad it actually started before I watered the garden! It chucked it down all sunday morning, stopped briefly in the afternoon for my riding lesson and then was torrential all night again. Hooray! Sunday morning - we wrapped up well and were working in the garden - the plants looked so happy for their wash and drink! Everything looked so green and lucious.
Even with only watering the plants in containers daily (or every other day in cooler weather) and the veg beds every second or third day, I'm using half a waterbutt of water each time. (for weeks now it's been tap water)
I've been trying to save bathwater for the flower beds. It's fine at weekends to save the mornings bathwater, but during the week, I can't save it - we have baths in the evening and showers in the morning. Don't have time to empty the bath into the garden in the morning before work and the plug doesn't quite fit properly, so if I left it until the evening, it would have all gone anyway!
