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Jeremy Clarkson shares trick to keeping his pub's green lawn in Top Gear despite drought

Jeremy Clarkson famously runs the iconic Cotswolds pub The Farmer's Dog, which is boasting a lush, bright green lawn despite the recent drought plaguing the UK

[Clarkson revealed the secret to keeping a healthy lawn during a brutal UK heatwave]

Clarkson revealed the secret to keeping a healthy lawn during a brutal UK heatwave(Image: Tom Wren / SWNS)

Jeremy Clarkson's has been keeping his pub garden looking lush and green during the recent UK drought crisis. Recent aerial images showed the lawn at his Farmers Dog boozer looking very healthy while surrounding fields were parched brown.

Jezza explained he has a borehole after criticism was fired at other celebs for how they were beating the hosepipe ban. The Clarksons Farm star, 61, said: You dig a hole maybe 100m into the ground, put a pump in it and water comes out. Water thats not subjected to government interference. Thats what we did at my pub.

Boreholes are deep shafts drilled into the earth, can cost tens of thousands of pounds to install and can pump a whopping ten thousand litres a day. The ex-Top Gear host revealed the trick while discussing the state of 81-year-old Sir Rod Stewarts lawn in Essex.

[Jeremy's lawn is looking lush and green despite the hot weather]

Jeremy's lawn is looking lush and green despite the hot weather(Image: Tom Wren / SWNS)

Jezza explained: An aerial photograph of the lush green lawns outside Rod Stewarts mansion prompted the nations bitter people to ask: How did you manage that, mate, when theres a hosepipe ban in force? Could it be, perhaps, that Rod probably has a borehole?

There is no evidence the singer nor Jezza has broken any rules. Daily Star contacted Jeremy, West Oxfordshire Council and Thames Water for comment.

Daily Star reporter Bekka Barnard went down to The Farmer's Dog to try the food for herself - see what she thought here.

[Jeremy's pub is located in the Cotswolds]

Jeremy's pub is located in the Cotswolds(Image: SWNS)

The news of Jeremy's borehole comes after condiment brand Condimaniac revealed that a dispute over their bottle's labelling meant it would be stop providing sauces to The Farmer's Dog. Boss Kier Kemp took to social media to say: "We're not selling 100% British ketchup to Jeremy Clarkson's pub The Farmer's Dog anymore. The reason is quite nuanced but ultimately what it boils down to is we don't like to white-label our products."

"We didn't expect the videos to do so well and we definitely didn't expect it to catch the eye of Jeremy Clarkson and his pub. Ultimately, though, people go to The Farmer's Dog to buy Diddly Squat stuff, not Condimaniac, so it made sense to have that branding on the bottle."

[Jeremy aims to make sure all of his ingredients are sourced in the UK]

Jeremy aims to make sure all of his ingredients are sourced in the UK(Image: PA)

Kier said Condimaniac did occasionally produce white-label sauces - including one-off projects for Download Festival and Octopus Energy, but said it was different when supplying regular customers because the company was taking responsibility for the reputation of a product which did not carry its name.

The ketchup was created after Clarkson struggled to find a version which met his strict rule that all food served at The Farmer's Dog should be produced entirely in Britain.

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