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Originally Posted by reninfrance
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Remember that the wind dries the soil as much as the sun so shelter plants save water.
Enjoy experimenting with plants that prefer to be dry, grasses, euphorbias, sea hollies etc. The RHS do a useful book on dry gardens and have a display garden at Hyde Hall in Essex if you live anywhere near.
Hope this helps a little-
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On that topic, if you are growing crops, then use tunnels or, on a smaller scale, cloches fro plants which need a lot of water (tomatoes, courgettes, peppers &c) or even those which need moderate amounts of water such as beans. If you have really dry soil it's simply not worth trying to grow "waterside" plants such as celery!
Tunnels have other useful effects such as keeping pests out
but they also keep bees out, if you need pollination, and keep out ladybirds and hoverflies should aphids get into the tunnel!
You'll need to let bees and predators in from time to time!