Hearthstone » Sustainability http://www.hearthstone.co.uk/blog1 Welcome to Hearthstone's Blog Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:08:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Watering the garden http://www.hearthstone.co.uk/blog1/2009/07/watering-the-garden/ http://www.hearthstone.co.uk/blog1/2009/07/watering-the-garden/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:05:51 +0000 scott http://www.hearthstone.co.uk/blog1/?p=12 No rain for weeks now, most of the plants in our gardens look tired and thirsty, time to fill the watering cans and get watering. We are lucky there is a small stream that runs through our village, most of the villagers use the stream to water their gardens. Water is expensive in France, it seems everyone is metered, for us this is great as it encourages us to look at our water use and treat water as the valuable resource it is.

I have developed a way of carrying three large plastic watering cans and a bucket in a standard galvanized wheelbarrow I support the cans by filling the barrow with water once I have the watering cans in place. To water our entire garden takes between ten and twelve visits to the stream and about an hour and a half in time.

Occasionally I am joined by freshwater crayfish that live in the stream on one occasion I had three large crayfish in my watering cans, I simple return them downstream from where we collect water. This time of year the garden needs watering every evening so I get plenty of exercise and fresh air

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