{"id":3577,"date":"2010-07-10T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:03:02","slug":"can-i-fill-my-water-butt-with-a-hose-during-the-hosepipe-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/can-i-fill-my-water-butt-with-a-hose-during-the-hosepipe-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I fill my water butt with a hose during the hosepipe ban?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wateringcan200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3580 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"wateringcan200\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wateringcan200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tap200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3579 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 0px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"tap200\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tap200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>I know it may sound like a strange question but I had heard that some people were re-filling their water butts with a hosepipe during the ban.<\/p>\n<p>So to clarify things I gave United Utilities a call and they say that no you cannot use a hose to fill your water butt or to fill a watering can or bucket.<\/p>\n<p>However, you can fill your watering can from a cold water tap either in the house or outside.<\/p>\n<p>They also confirmed that it was OK to top-up your garden pond or feature using a hose.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought I would hear myself\u00a0 say this but &#8230;.. we need some rain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it may sound like a strange question but I had heard that some people were re-filling their water butts with a hosepipe during the ban. So to clarify things I gave United Utilities a call and they say that no you cannot use a hose to fill your water butt or to fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chat","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15758,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/15758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}