Adrian D. Shaw wrote:
Felly sgrifennodd Will Hand :
In the end Jon, just 3.0 mm which is just a "spit in the wind" for these parts.
Ah well I'm not bothered, don't really need it anyway.

Does mains water get up to your house then Will? It doesn't get to ours,
and we're really struggling now. The 21.3mm we've had this month has, I
guess, just been absorbed by the dry surface layer.

We really need a good downpour, ideally a very wet week or so, to recover
our spring, I think. I don't see anything like that on the horizon for us.
Can you offer any hope?

Adrian (12 miles ESE Aberystwyth, 260m/860ft asl)
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You have my sympathy Adrian. We have mains water, but a very dry
garden. No rain to speak of this month so far, and for most of July.
Despite the thread's title I dont see any evidence on the current radar
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/rain.shtml ) of heavy rain
moving towards SW England or W Wales. A few showers maybe.

I have a very brown lawn, we use washing up water (Ecover washing-up
liquid is ok, I'm told) to water the flower beds just to keep them
alive and the tubs of tomatoes/cucumbers etc have exhausted the rain
water and are now watered by hosepipe (no ban here). But, I dont know
what I would do without mains water. As it is, a few of my tomato
plants dried out on days where the max was 34C, and the result is
blossom end rot on the tomatoes.