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Not looking forward to extreme heat

Homebird

It is just about reaching as hot as I can bear, towards the upper 20s. If we get extreme heat for a few days I get through it by thinking that it will be over soon. At the moment next week is predicted to be around 30 all week and often the prediction gets higher as it gets closer.

I like to be outside at least some of each day, but I am not sure there will be much that is bearable. 

I am hoping they have got it wrong and it reduces sooner than Monday week.

Parents

  • 26℃ here today and the ground has turned from green to brown.

    Despite no rain for weeks, our streams are flowing at a high level and the water table is higher than average for this time of year.  I'm wondering if it would be ok to hose the lawn?  We don't have a hosepipe ban but I don't know how it could impact our environment.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    There is no need to hose a lawn as it will go back to green with no problem when it rains. If you don't have plants to water, I guess you could put washing up water on the grass. We do that to water one of our flower beds as we heard it recommended. We have also started saving water left over from the kettle and any other clean water to put in the watering cans.

    I think it was in 1976 we used to siphon bath water for watering.

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    There is no need to hose a lawn as it will go back to green with no problem when it rains. If you don't have plants to water, I guess you could put washing up water on the grass. We do that to water one of our flower beds as we heard it recommended. We have also started saving water left over from the kettle and any other clean water to put in the watering cans.

    I think it was in 1976 we used to siphon bath water for watering.

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  • in reply to Homebird

    Gosh! I remember the ingenious methods of watering in 1976.

    I know lawns will go green again when it rains but I’m having issues with one part of my lawn. It has a tendency to get some sort of infestation of something, possibly crane flies, and the lawn becomes diseased because the larvae eat the grass roots. Years ago I was told it is exacerbated by long dry periods in the summer followed by heavy autumn/winter rain on the hardened (builders rubble mix with top soil) earth. I have tried nematodes a few times but they didn’t help that much. I’ve recently been using an organic bio moss treatment which ‘eats’ moss and lawn thatch and also feeds the grass, and I’ve been top dressing with compost. It is now looking better than it has done for years so I’m scared the dry spell will ruin my hard work and expense. I don’t have enough water from washing up. 

    There was somebody on TV a while back who had built their own home and they had a system to collect their shower water for the vegetable patch.