On a 3/4 acre block we have only 5 taps they cover the area we need to water with the hose but it is a long way to walk with a bucket so now I take the hose to the bucket with a trigger nozzle attached and fill up one and put the hose in the second bucket and by time I have tipped the first one and come back to the second one its almost full, if I am a bit slow then I come back and turn the trigger off.

Do you think this is permitted as there is nothing there in the whole page advert in the Sunday Mail that says otherwise it states "Watering of gardens and lawns with a hand-held bucket permitted any time" I had a giggle at that well what else do we hold the bucket with not our foot surely. Does the hand-held mean that you have to hold the bucket at the tap to fill it up, or hold the bucket to water the plants confusing but I will do it the easy way...Cheers..MM.

I also tried watering in the evening but
1. The Block is too dark. Its also too big.
2. Its across the road from the Logan river and there could be snakes.
3. I would not like to trip over a Toad, or anything for that matter.
4. The MOZZIES ate me alive
5. Some of the night noises scare me

I could throw the "Iam too old" but Iam not quite there yet.

And I think that we should be allowed to water at some time in the daylight hours otherwise more of us will end up in Hospital.

I also agree with you on that tighter restrictions should have been enforced months back especially with sprinklers attached to hoses where people leave them on for hours at a time watering one tree and flooding their grass not lawns on these big blocks , what a waste

Also I am getting very tired as I am missing out on some quality sleeping time and seeing my neighbour is away and I have only enough time to water half her garden she is saving a lot of water too, but will have to use that saved money to buy more plants when she gets back.....Cheers...MM.

Yesterday with all that drying wind I decided to do a bucket run to all of my roses and I filled the bucket using the trigger hose. I wasn't sure if it was allowed but then I thought what is the difference to using the tap if the trigger hose is turned off in between filling the bucket.

I also do the front yard one morning and the back the other as I tried one morning to do both and I was watering from 5.20am to 6.40am (with husband watering as well for half of that time) which is just too much. Not sure what the mozzies would be like at night but I have been eaten alive in the mornings! My husband suggested watering at night but there is no way as I am so freaked out by snakes and toads that I would end up watering it all in 5 minutes just to get out of there! There was an article in Sunday's paper about rain. A long term weather forecaster has predicted heavy rains by the end of the month or early November and seems confident after the summer storm season there will be no more water restrictions in Brisbane. I really hope he is right.

V

I haven't resorted to buckets yet just the watering can on non hose days. Have being using the watering prong gadget that you poke into the ground so that you are getting water into the ground not on top. Seems to be very good providing the soil hasn't become to hard and compacted. I have given up on the lawns as I do not have enough time to deal with them and the gardens. Like others I have been getting up at 5.15am. It really is nice in the garden then. I do this often through the summer months. I hate watering at night as it is too dark to see. Maybe this is a case for daylight saving. I know some elderly people who do not like being out in the garden at night. They do not feel safe. At least the hand watering makes you study your garden more.

GH

Yes Vee I seen that article in the Sunday Mail too, trouble is will we get too much then everything gets damaged and up goes the Insurances and the veggies and fruit, we cant win can we the world is out of wack thats for sure, just gentle rain for a few days is all we need so it can soak in instead of running off like it always does. Hubby has offered to get up early and help me with the watering only trouble is when he puts on the back tap the water pressure goes down so with two of us doing it, it is taking nearly as long as when just one of us is doing it
Happy watering to you both....Cheers..MM.

Luckily the dam still has plenty of water though the tank for drinking is getting down. We have a header tank up the hill behind the house where dam water is pumped into. All we have to do is turn on the tap next to the house to water the gardens. The header tank is not very big but usually lasts a week or 2 to water vegies, use in toilet, etc. When its empty we just have to go down and turn the pump on for a couple of hours to refill the tank. Good when the pump is working, not so good when it's not (only rarely though).

Not having town water on hand we realise the value of water and are careful not to waste it. I rarely water the lawn as grass generally grows back with the first rain though I do try and keep a couple of areas around the patio watered so dirt isn't dragged in.

Tanks are a very good investment for gardeners, even just a couple of 44gal drums to catch rain water can make a big difference to the plants.

Keep your chins up, every day is a day closer to rain. As much as I hate to say it though, we really need flood type rain to fill dams and underground water.

Hope your shoulder is improving MM, don't overdo it.

Hubby helped me this morning as I slept in till 5:20 so we did finished it quicker but he dosn't water deeply so I will probably have to do the back again on Sunday, anyway I had 15 minutes to go next door and water a few of the neighbours new gardenia's and ferns gosh her Camellias look sick, now I will be able to water the rest of hers on Friday. But it is terribly windly here on Wednesday afternoon they say we will get a storm, hope we dont, just the rain will do fine, but this wind is drying the soil out. Hope all you others out there are copeing OK. Cheers..MM.

We had at least an inch (someone tipped the rain gauge over again and I didn't realise it until it had been raining half an hour) of steady, soaking rain last night. You could nearly hear the plants relief. Had another couple of showers this morning and apparently more to come.

Got jealous on Wednesday evening as you could see it pouring rain about 150m away but we only had a very light sprinkle :( That seems to happen here a lot, we often see it raining down the road but we miss out. On Wednesday it was so heavy it looked like someone had put a grey wall up.

My fingers are crossed for all of you and your plants.

The power was out for about 1 1/2 hours last night, very restfull reading by candlelight. The sky is a very dark grey here at present so looks good for a bit more rain tonight that would be wonderful...Cheers..MM.