{"id":12633,"date":"2015-04-11T00:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T07:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12633"},"modified":"2015-03-29T02:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T09:41:36","slug":"drought-or-flood-in-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/drought-or-flood-in-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought or Flood in your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What sort of summer are you expecting. The probability is that there will be no extremes but the danger of flood or drought is always around for gardeners.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dry garden by foliosus, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foliosus\/3581603195\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2428\/3581603195_dd329ebcec.jpg\" alt=\"Dry garden\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the weathermen seem to be forecasting further drought conditions for the summer of 2012. Gardeners should therefore be prepared for flood!<\/p>\n<h2>Drought Preparations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a flood of advice from government and the government in exile ie. newspapers and media. eg. plant trees for shade and wait 100 years for them to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Val Bourne at the Daily Telegraph suggests &#8216;puddling in&#8217; when planting out your brassicas and leeks and this strikes me as a good use of water. It just means filling the planting hole with water just before you pop your plant in.<\/li>\n<li>Another Val tip is to stand watering cans of tap water around the garden until the sun&#8217;s warmth has evaporated the chlorine away.<\/li>\n<li>Carrots and parsnips naturally grow in drier sandy soil and grow longer in seeking out water. Try several varieties if you like these vegetables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Flood by itspaulkelly, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/itspaulkelly\/2882478919\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3155\/2882478919_cf3f26fee6.jpg\" alt=\"Flood\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Flood Preparations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Be prepared to catch what water you may need in butts, barrels and ponds.<\/li>\n<li>If your ground is liable to waterlogging either restrict the plants you grow or improve the drainage.<\/li>\n<li>Minor drainage improvements can be achieved with added grit, sand and gravel<\/li>\n<li>Major drainage improvements may include a deep soak-away or a perforated drainage system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Low-water No-water Garden: Gardening for Drought and Heat the Mediterranean Way<\/strong> &#8211; A Practical Guide with 500 Stunning Colour Photographs by Pattie Barron <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0754818381\/richardpettin-21\">available from amazon<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nManaging the Wet Garden:<\/strong> Plants That Flourish in Problem Places by John Simmons <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/088192900X\/richardpettin-21\"> available from Amazon<\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nDry garden by foliosus CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nFlood by itspaulkelly CC BY-NC 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weathermen are forecasting further drought conditions for the summer so gardeners should  be prepared for flood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}