Hose pipe Ban

[binley100]

We are all being encouraged to be healthier and eat homegrown produce and yet us dedicated gardeners will not be able to use hosepipes on our allotments to keep the produce alive. I only use the watering can in my garden, but this is really not feasible for allotment holders. Filling cans from taps with sufficient water for a whole plot will be a nightmare task and some elderly gardeners may find it too arduous in the heat. Are we supposed to just stand by and watch our future meals die? I am determined to still use the same amount of water on my crops, it will just take me 10 times as long, so where's the sense in that? I feel another letter to my MP coming on....

We don't use hoses, we have tanks dotted around the site and are encouraged to fit guttering to sheds and greenhouses to collect water. Our oldest member (90) would put many to shame as he collects and uses only his own water yet still manages to produce a phenomenal amount of fruit and veg ......and he works on the equivalent of 1/4 acre ....

[salome2001]

Salome, water authority say that hose pipes can be used where livestock are involved, therefore fish ponds are exempt.

Colin

so can I classify frogs, toads, newts, hoverflies, mosquitoes, water fleas etc as my livestock??????
As the author emphasises, the ecosystem works from the bottom up

[binley100]

Only if you eat them

[salome2001]

I'm raising bugs to be eaten by slugs, to be eaten by chickens, who make me eggs...

[binley100]

but unfortunately slugs don't eat bugs .........

[salome2001]

Hmm. True. I think I was channelling amphibians there. Surely I could raise frogs as food. Or newts. I'm sure Heston Blumenthal could nitrogen-freeze their testicles and make it into ice cream or something.

[binley100]

Frogs legs maybe but newts knackers are off limits I think they are protected........

[veggiechicken]

Frogs legs maybe but newts knackers are off limits I think they are protected........

..... by reinforced newt's knackers knickers.....

[salome2001]

.. so no nicking newts' knickered knackers!

[veggiechicken]

.... not knowingly nicking newts knackered knickers nor knickered knackers or knockers.....

[binley100]

nicely nestling newt's knackers .........

[binley100]

Try saying that lot after a few glasses .........

[veggiechicken]

.... when you're p....d as a newt?

[binley100]

so .......

no nicking newts knickered knackers cos newts knickered knackers are nicely nestling in newts knacker knickers nest...........

[binley100]

and on that note the brain can't take anymore .........bed