When water is short sprinklers are wasteful – and illegal, too, in some areas. These easy-to-use devices make what water there is go further in the garden. Helen Yemm’s favourite, the NuCan, is the world’s only push-button watering can. This blindingly simple idea gives you complete control – water flows at the speed you want, … Read more
Thorny problems: how can I help my elderly mother garden? Q: I live in London and am not a gardener, but I have an increasingly incapacitated mother in the country for whom growing things has always been a passion. She moved to a smaller paved garden years ago, but seems unable to stop herself growing … Read more
‘NuCan, a very efficient watering can invented on the Isle of Wight, delivers water at the push of a button without wasting a drop.’ Source: Water-works-splash-in-solent-footprint-trust -download as a PDF Related links: Water-works-splash-in-solent-footprint-trust -download as a PDF Footprint Trust
‘It is easy to neglect a green-house in winter, but its beds of salads, pots of herbs and trays of seedlings will still be growing, if only slowly. They will need water – but not too much and not too often. Test the soil and the compost in pots with your fingers – do not … Read more
‘NEWPORT-based inventor Paul Bone has created a highly accurate indoor watering can, which has won the praise of film star and gardener Sir Norman Wisdom. Mr Bone, of Lizant Innovations, is already well known as the creator of the popular NuCan outdoor watering can. But his new Pinpoint indoor watering can is the first with … Read more