Fighting the Drought with Hozelok

Down here where we are in Sussex, it’s getting pretty parched – it’s not so bad for us in the glasshouses because we have all the irrigation on hand to keep the soil in good shape, but some of our neighbours are really suffering from having a wet spring followed by now about 6 weeks without rain. Even our trusty mulberry looks as if it’s taking the strain a bit.

HOzelok's wonderful gadget

The misery has been compounded because needless to say it was this summer we chose to remove the swimming pool and replace it with a nice dished lawn area. This means that we have about 100 square meters of bare earth to cover – all at the mercy of pigeons and baby rabbits.  So in order to get it going I’ve been using this amazing little gadget from Hozelok. Since we don’t sell these I don’t have to put up a shameless plug alert – I can just tell you about it. It was around a tenner (which means I don’t remember whether it was £8.95 or £12.95) and it just clicks onto the end of the hose in the usual way.

But it has 8 heads – you can do full or half circles – either as sheets or as sprinkles of water, – a square, a jet and my favourite which creates a mist over a 2 x 5 m area.

I have to say its brilliant and well worthy of induction into the Intelligent Garden hall of fame. I expect they’re pretty widely available – I blush to admit I bought mine in HomeBase.

Its saved the grass – that’s for sure.