Water by the bucketful

We haven't had any rain for a while and the ground is starting to crack on my allotment. I decided to remedy this by soaking each row of veg with bucketfuls of water rather than dribbling with a watering can. It isn't that anything was dying, it just isn't growing much. I have plenty of water saved in various containers, dustbins, butts, buckets - whatever I could fill when we last had rain. It's certainly coming in useful now

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Comment by Caro on July 28, 2011 at 8:20: Funnily enough, I did the same on Tuesday evening! I can usually water when a friend kindly drops a hosepipe down from her bathroom taps, 4 floors to the ground, but she's been away so I'd run out, even in the water butt (aka dustbin). She's back now, so the veg got a good soaking last night and the butt refilled. Off we go again! Phew!