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The UK gardener's watering library.
Calculators, planting lists, ban rules and honest advice — free, no sign-up, written for British soil and British weather. Use it whether you ever buy from us or not.
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Garden Designer Pro
Answer fifteen quick questions and get up to 30 plants chosen for your soil and aspect, a 12-month calendar, 48 weekend jobs and a costed shopping list. Free, no sign-in.
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Most popularWatering plan generator
Add each growing area — veg patch, pots, borders — and get your weekly plan in seconds: litres, which days, and how long it takes by can, hose or dripline.
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Garden watering calculator
Set your bed length, planting type, soil and weather. Get the litres your garden needs a week and how long to run a dripline.
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Roof rainwater yield calculator
How many litres your roof collects a year by region, what butt capacity you need, and whether gravity feed can run a dripline.
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- Free tool3 min
Garden Designer Pro
Answer fifteen quick questions and get up to 30 plants chosen for your soil and aspect, a 12-month calendar, 48 weekend jobs and a costed shopping list. Free, no sign-in.
- Interactive1 min
Watering plan generator
Add each growing area — veg patch, pots, borders — and get your weekly plan in seconds: litres, which days, and how long it takes by can, hose or dripline.
- Interactive2 min
Garden watering calculator
Set your bed length, planting type, soil and weather. Get the litres your garden needs a week and how long to run a dripline.
- Interactive4 min
Roof rainwater yield calculator
How many litres your roof collects a year by region, what butt capacity you need, and whether gravity feed can run a dripline.
- Grow guide6 min
How often to water vegetables
A crop-by-crop chart of frequency, litres and the critical fortnight that decides each harvest.
- Planting7 min
Drought-tolerant plants for UK gardens
Filterable list of perennials, shrubs, grasses, herbs, climbers and dry-shade ground cover that thrive on light watering and wet British winters.
- Seasonal6 min
Autumn lawn care UK
When to scarify, aerate, feed and overseed, plus when to stop watering grass and how to winterise a dripline system.
- Seasonal planting8 min
What to plant now
A month-by-month UK planting calendar with flowering and harvest windows for the plants worth sowing this season.
- Water restrictions5 min
UK hosepipe ban guide
What temporary use bans usually cover, what stays allowed, and how to keep beds alive through a drought order.
- Compliance4 min
Is drip irrigation allowed during a hosepipe ban?
The short answer, the reasoning behind it, and how to check the wording of your own supplier's notice.
- Pricing5 min
What does a drip irrigation kit cost in the UK?
The full cost line by line — the £25 Flow Kit, bespoke box pricing, what moves the price and why installation is free.
- How-to4 min
Installing your dripline
Six tool-free steps from unboxing to first watering — pipe arrives pre-cut, so nothing needs trimming.
- The process3 min
How Bloomline works
From tap flow reading and rough measurements to a bespoke, laminated layout map for your beds.
- Practical guide6 min
Build a garden watering plan
Seven steps to decide what gets water, how much and how often — plus a sample summer week and seasonal adjustments.
Tip of the week
Updated every week
Autumn lawn care and watering in the UK
After a long dry summer, most British lawns look thin, patchy and sun-bleached. September is the month to put that right: the soil is still warm, rain is more reliable, and grass seed germinates fast. Do the work now and the lawn recovers before the first frosts rather than limping into spring.
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Jobs this month
A short, honest list. Three things worth doing — not thirty you'll never get to.
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Plant spring bulbs
02
Divide crowded perennials
03
Drain and store timers before frost
Quick answers
- Best time of day to water?
- Early morning. Cool soil loses least to evaporation and leaves dry before nightfall.
- How deep should water reach?
- At least 15cm. Push a finger in an hour later — dry at 5cm means you only wet the surface.
- Daily or twice a week?
- Fewer, deeper soaks. They pull roots downwards. Only pots and salad want daily water.
- Does mulch really help?
- Yes — 5cm of mulch on damp soil can roughly halve evaporation from a bed.
- Is grey water safe on beds?
- Cooled washing-up water is fine occasionally on ornamentals. Avoid it on edible leaves.
- Do lawns need watering?
- No. Brown UK lawns are dormant, not dead, and green up within two weeks of rain.
Hosepipe bans by water company
Restrictions are set supplier by supplier. Find yours for the local rules and what stays permitted.
Water less. Grow more.
Every guide here ends in the same place: root-level watering uses a fraction of the water a hose does. Start with the £25 Flow & Measure Kit — credited back when you buy your bespoke box.
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