Pun Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 whats the score ref the watering of hanging baskets /the garden etc when people have rented the gite for a couple of weeks etc,do you have an arrangement to go and water/cut the lawns ect ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 I would think either the owner or their maintenance folk do it at the usual changeover time. I don't think hanging baskets are a good idea as these need watering daily! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo Taylor Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I just tell them when I'm going to mow the lawn, and that if they see me luirking outside the window I'm watering the boxes, not peeking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pun Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 Hi cassis,have you ever walked through a village or town in France that has no window box,s or hanging baskets?Ask your self if you arrived at a gite you,d booked and befor you even got out of the car that wow, factor hit you because the owner took the trouble to ensure you recieved a welcome of refreshments, a garden you want to spend time in and every window had a display of geraniums hanging from it. Or no effort made and a feeling that the gite was nothing special?I know the one I,d want to be at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 No I haven't and we have loads of pots and boxes ourselves - look at our website - but we are here full time to look after them. Unless you have someone to water them every day then hanging baskets are soon going to look crap - in that case it is much better if you can plant stuff in the ground where they can take up water themselves, that is what I am saying. Otherwise invest in an automatic watering system. Hanging baskets are the worst - they evaporate water in every direction. Plastic lining helps but not a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pads Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 check out www.garden-watering.com you can have a constant drip feed of water from a water butt cutting out the need for a timer on a tap, this will keep them moist all the time so to stop the dry out/soaking problem.Saint Casis I bet you could come up with some better sites for this? Or did some one just catch you on a hula hoop stall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 I'm with Cassis on this. As a B&B we have hanging baskets and window boxes to make the house look pretty but a gite would be a totally different matter; at the moment, even in Normandy, we are watering twice a day due to the extreme weather conditions. Don't know what we'd do if it was a gite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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