Ok I have stopped them. @Snowdrops, I watched Beachgrove, it’s a charming program, I don’t know how I missed it. And the allotment guy on there does it so it’s good enough for me. Thanks for the tip re watering throughly in a drier spell @ChrisDonghue, which we seem to be having now . Can’t wait to get down there and snap the hose into action.