What are your top garden tips for the heat - and how do you feel about hosepipe bans? - video Dailymotion

National World - LocalTV

With rising temperatures and hosepipe bans on the cards, we ask people in Birmingham for their best advice on keeping gardens alive during a heatwave. Do they support water restrictions—or find them frustrating?

Transcript

00:00My garden, I'll have a garden.

00:02So I wouldn't know, I guess just watering the plants, you know,

00:07cutting down the grass, all that good stuff.

00:10Hose pipe bands, again, I mean, I don't really think is that really that necessary.

00:14Do we not really organise that enough to make sure that we don't have hose pans

00:20with the amount of wet weather we do actually have?

00:23For us, we do have a tank in the garden where we do collect rainwater.

00:30And we do use that to pour all over our gardens and our plants.

00:37I understand like droughts and that.

00:39Like I do understand like we should conserve water,

00:41but I feel like education should go into water usage and actually using hoses.

00:48I think, you know, if people know how to use their hoses properly

00:54and like what water efficiency is, then I feel like, you know,

00:58planning them completely would be mitigated.

What are your top garden tips for the heat - and how do you feel about hosepipe bans?

Category

Transcript

Recommended