Our local water supplier has announced a hopepipe ban for all its customers, which has got me thinking that’s it’s about time we fitted our passive irrigation system. We already have one water butt, and are waiting for another one that we ordered through the local council’s subsidised water butt scheme. Once that is installed for the overflow from the first water butt, we can fit the irrigation system.
The system that we intend to use consists of a porous hose made from recycled tyres that is connected to the water butt and then snaked amongs the plants and mulched over. Then all you do is open the tap on the water butt and sit back to let your garden water itself.
I have also been reading up on water conservation in the garden and happened across Jane Perrone’s article in the Guardian that gives some very practical tips in dealing with the water shortage that we are experiencing.
