For those with electricity & MONEY - Ferndale Lodge do a butt pump which sounds useful?
:o
What? You mean ban or money??
i mean 'butt pump' ;D
And now - back to the subject??
Quote from: adam04 on April 02, 2006, 18:37:24
i mean 'butt pump' ;D
i had visions of an episode of Southpark there.
:o
We've had a ban since last July.
does a but pump hurt
sorry could not help myself
waggi
Tim has come up with the best thread ever... ;D
;D Don't think I can Barium this ;D sorry Tim. ;D
Well I'm buying one!
Hi Tim, I've already ordered mine, got mine from :-
http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=123690&Referrer=AffWindow&source=affwin
Cheaper than Ferndale Lodge, only £33.95, hope this helps.
WOWEE!! Thanks for that. What a difference.
If you want 12v versions you can try
http://www.lvm-ltd.com/water%20pumps.htm (http://www.lvm-ltd.com/water%20pumps.htm)
You have got to be kidding about the bann,
I can't get anything into the ground for the b****y rain here ,
the ground is that sodden ,anything I put in will drown or rot.
I had to cover my beds with weed supressor to keep the weeds at bay until the
ground dries up.
I'm soooo fed up waiting to start.
Sorry for the rant, I think I'll go eat chocolate
the OH was over in Larne on Saturday S-M and got absoutely soaked. :'( :(
Meanwhile it was brilliant sunshine here and the two large bags of compost i bought from a certain well known DIY supplier was bone dry :o, so once i'd dug it all in gave me a reasonable texture ;D Did my back in though :'(
i don't know which is worse, wet or dry :'(
I could do with one at the lottie - but all the spare cash was earmarked for the raised bed construction this year.
I have settled for a trio of butts connected to the shed roof, with manure and leaf mould to mulch plants once they're in.
For those of you who want to save more water but don't like the idea of siphoning bath/shower water into the garden, bailing it into the lavatory cistern for flushing helps. That way it also gets used twice, and loos are one of the largest users of water. I've now got a bucket by the bath (and an absorbent cloth for drips!). Seems to work very well.
Admittedly it does mean if you don't empty the bath out completely between showers, you get cold feet! :o :o
moonbells
I wonder if its actually against the law to use one of these butt pumps with a hosepipe if there's a hosepipe ban???
I understand that the water authority will still charge you for water from your own bore hole, river or pond?? what about if you lived off water collected in butts??
Is'nt the ban on using a hosepipe, no matter what the source is.....
The hosepipe ban was discussed at lunch time on ' You and Yours ' with no firm conviction on wether a ban applied to allotments or not. What did come out of it which maybe of help to some members is that it is OK to fill water butts by hose, ??? ??? the ban dosn't apply to this usage. You could then if you wish connect a hosepipe to your water butt and then water your allotment. Thinking it through, if you made the water butt totally watertight (includes the top) fiited a hose connector to the top and then a hose from there to the water tap, another hose from the water butts' normal tap connector, you should be able to run a sprinkler at mains pressure and still comply with the law. ;D ;D ;D
3valleys official stance is:
"the ban applies to the watering of a private garden and allotments do not fall within this category. However, we would encourage allotment holders to act now to install water butts for collection of water and think about other ways that they can mulch and use biodegradable gel to retain the moisture within the soil."
but I don't have an allotment :-\ so am off to buy 3 water butts this weekend (one for the back, one for the front and one for the greenhouse ;D)
not sure what 'biodegradable gel' is - sounds a bit sci-fi to me ???
Quote from: keef on April 04, 2006, 13:08:40
I understand that the water authority will still charge you for water from your own pond?? what about if you lived off water collected in butts??
Hi Keef,
Depends on what is the cheapest option for the waterboard, in my garden I have a 50' x 70' pond, in which the rain water from three houses and the road outside collects, when it reaches a certain height it overflows into another pipe and is lead away to the normal rain collection system. On my house deeds it states that I own the land but the water authority own the water. So I contacted the water authority to come and repair the pond edges and banks as the water was undercutting them. Suddenly they no longer own the water it belongs to the council, no says the council it's not ours it's the house owners. This summer I intend to use the water from the pond to water the veg patch using a sprinkler system, I'm hoping a neighbour will report me, otherwise I have to get the OH to do it. If they fine me then they own the water and they can come and fix the pond banks, estimated cost 20 pounds per foot, which is a lot dearer than any fine. I bet I don't hear from them.
I just phoned Thames Water and asked,
Me - Is it OK to connect a hosepipe to the outlet of a water butt?
TW - Yes.
Me - Is it OK to fill a water butt with short length of hosepipe, from the mains?
TW - um...Yes.
Me - OK, thankyou - bye.
;D ;D
Happy watering.
Quote from: keef on April 04, 2006, 13:36:47
I just phoned Thames Water and asked,
Me - Is it OK to connect a hosepipe to the outlet of a water butt?
TW - Yes.
Me - Is it OK to fill a water butt with short length of hosepipe, from the mains?
TW - um...Yes.
Me - OK, thankyou - bye.
;D ;D
ooh - that is interesting. We're thames water too. Last year I was mostly using the hosepipe to fill the waterbutt anyway (and water the spuds, but obviously won't be doing that this year). It just doesn't make sense that they allow waterbutt filling. I'm confused.
(second butt ordered last week - hopefully it'll arrive before the spring rains end!)
Thanks, Mike, for mentioning the 'You and Yours' item - I missed a lot of it, but it's well worth listening to the whole item again with the Beeb playback thingy facility. Gotta be a must for lottie holders, as (the bit that I heard) questioned the legality of imposing a hosepipe ban on council-owned properties which were rented specifically for growing food. May have got some of the above wrong - which is why I'm going to listen to it again ;D ;D ;D
And, Mike, well done with your pond strategy. What's right's right.. 8)
Simple water absorbing 'pellets' that you put in composts - especially for troughs & hanging baskets.
Oh, dear - didn't see page 2 - that was for Sally!
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Quote3valleys official stance is:
"the ban applies to the watering of a private garden and allotments do not fall within this category
... however the water has not yet been turned on this year for the allotments ... so don't think I will hold my breath ???