Hose pipe ban

As you will all now be aware, from Friday 9th of June, there will be a hosepipe enforced across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria. This will affect everyone and it is particularly important if you are about to have plants delivered or have just had plants or a lawn just laid.

To give you an idea of how much water sprinklers and hose pipes use, a hosepipe uses as much water in an hour as a family of four would use in one day and a sprinkler left running overnight uses as much water as a family of four would use in one week. Yes, gardens can use a whole load of precious water, much of it which would be normally wasted as run off. 

To clarify the ban, you are NOT allowed to:

• Water private gardens with a sprinkler or hose
• Wash a private car with a hosepipe at home
• Leave a porous hose running under your hedge
• Connect up drippers to water your patio plants
• Water the vegetables in a household garden
• Use a hose to water planted containers anywhere in the garden
• Spray water into a planting hole with a hose 

If you having your garden planted over the next few days/weeks then it is imperative that your new plants are kept watered until they are bedded in. Yes, that means that you will have to water them with a watering can. Just to remind you that if the plants do dies through lack of watering, it is you that is responsible. You have been warned!

For more information about the ban:

United Utilites