You can find more information, photos and advice sheets on all the plants and recipes that we talk about in this podcast by heading to the links in the show notes or on our website at sarahavin.com. We've had the most extraordinary summer of weather, and on top of that now, of course, many of us are under a hosepipe ban.

And so I just thought, as gardeners, it's one of the things that's really freaking us all out.

So I just thought I would gather together my sort of five

top tips of what we're doing here at Pettsch Hill about water. And of course, number one is about

water collection. We're lucky enough actually when we put in a car park that we put in a water

storage tank. But even that's now empty, so that hasn't stood us in such

good stead. But of course, you know, we all know it, but there are pumps now and siphons that

you can move your bath water down into a water butt below the window. So, you know, just really thinking

of water as an incredibly precious

resource and not in a kind of earnest way, but just in a sensible way, I guess. And just,

I remember travelling in South Africa and coming back with a completely different attitude to water

and, you know, baths are out, showers are in, very short showers are in, etc. So I suppose

that's number one, but I'm sure you're all doing that. The whole thing of siphoning water

from your bath, I know people worry, well, what about the shampoo? What about the bath,

etc? Well, honestly, I do think bathall probably not good, but I think shampoo is

completely fine because if you think about it, I mean, I may get a deluge of letters from scientists,

but if you think about it, I use washing up liquid against the first infestation of aphids here,

and that's because it has a soapy texture, which then ruptures, I think,

the aphid exoskeleton. And so I see no reason why shampoo or soap in a bath is any problem.

But I think probably large quantities of bath or not so good. And number two, definitely,

for me, is the use of a barrow or tub truck for your pots.

So I know some pots are just going to be much too big to move.

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