A view from the kitchen window............. or not!

Lovely photos... gorgeous cats ... lovely view from the kitchen window too !

I like the idea of the plastic bottle, for baskets, how do you get it to drip- do you use a cork?

No Pinkhippo I just take the lid off and push the bottle into the soil, its so simple and effective, the soil forms the plug, but the water slowly but surely glugs away. Sometimes it flows to quick, and I simply lift the bottle out and do it again until it leeks slowly. I think its more efficient than a wateringcan as, the problem with wateringcans I find is the water just runs off, and you have to water over and over to give them a good watering. I use the bottles in my window boxes too.

lovely view.....

what a great idea, I shall employ that! Your flowers look lovely so it must work well. Glad I joined this site already!

Fantastic garden, beautiful cats and so clever to use the upside down bottle. It never seemed to work for me but I will try again. We went up to Crianlarich north of Stirling for the day. We were almost home when the rain we had seen falling miles away finally caught up with us. It came down in torrents. We had to sit in the car for 10 minutes until it abated enough to get out of the car and make a run for it. No need for hoses tonight. I was reading somewhere that it is better for the plants to be watered in the morning before the sun is on them than last thing at night. Any comments on that?

Wonderful flowers and pretty pussy cats :o)))

Having a south / west facing garden I was having to water the baskets when the sun was shining up to 3 times a day. - an automated irrigation system is on top of the Christmas list!!

Beautiful view; those flowers are stunning. Your black cat looks just like my Jet!

she also looks just like my ophelia and a splendid display

lauram - your profile photo could be Golly.

thats a brill idea gona do that as wen i redid a pot ,it was so dry even tho i water well .and i think ur veiw is amazing , mines the same lol love your cats 2 x

lovely garden & such beautiful cats...

What a lovely well kept garden you have K,looks very nice.

Thanks for your kind comments - my garden is my peaceful escape, but sometimes my business has to take priority - luckily thats usually in the winter, it would be bad planning for it to be the summer lol, but work does get in the way too much - oh how I look forward to retiring one day (my staff think I have already). Maybe then I'll grow some veg.

haha yes me too , retire i mean , i work 4 myself and it gets in the way , wot do u do if its only in winter. wonder if that will work 4 my client haha. dont think so ,they keep telling me i carnt retire lol. i def think u shud grow veg ,very satisfying

Such a lovely garden and two bonny cats,I use a plastic bottle as well but I cut the top off mine so it is more like a funnel and keep it topped up.