The dacha, the backyard, the garden on the open ground and the small one on its windowsill - any work with the land takes time, and every plant, unless, of course, it is a weed - of careful care. A special role for the existence of all life is played by water. And cultural plantations, too, are in dire need of timely irrigation.
Save time
Many plantings should be watered often, but gradually. And if there is no time for it or if you need to go away for a while, you can arrange for your green pets drip irrigation from plastic bottles. It's very simple to make a system with your own hands. There is no need for special education or special knowledge. Such a system can be used both in the open ground, and for indoor, flower plantings. Filling periodically with water, you will ensure the necessary inflow of moisture to the roots and do not allow salting or, conversely, soil silt.
Watering system technology
In order to organize drip irrigation from plastic bottles with your own hands, you need, above all, these same bottles. If it is a question of vases on a windowsill, it is possible to be limited to one and a half and two liter containers. If the garden or garden - it is better to take a little more, 3 and 3.5-liter. Suitable and pyatilitrovye plastic cans, but they will need a special mount. Now the holes. If you plan to dig in the ground in the ground, they should be done all over the body of the bottle - somewhere from the middle and down. For example, you want to make drip irrigation from plastic bottles with your own hands for a growing number of several rose bushes. In this case, place the capacitance between them, and hole the walls not on one side, but on several. Then the water from the bottles will flow not to the same flower, but immediately to two or three. Convenient, right? The same applies to planting tomatoes, cucumbers, other "inhabitants" of gardens and vegetable gardens, growing not in a single specimen, but in rows and beds, flower beds. Punctures make an awl or a well-heated nail. Just do not need a lot of holes or too wide - the water will start to go away too quickly, which is not profitable for you. But even very small holes will not go: they will be clogged by earth, and access to the roots will be very limited. Hence, with this option, the bottles are cut off the neck, so that it is convenient to fill the liquid in them. How else to make drip irrigation from plastic bottles with your own hands? Lids tightly close and drill the holes in them with the same nails or a drill. Do 3 to 4 holes. However, if you need water to go a little bit, then enough, and 2. These bottles cut off the bottoms.
Installation and fixing
When the bottles are ready, you can proceed with the direct installation of the system. Here, too, have their own subtleties. If the plants are planted densely or their roots in the soil are shallow, and the top layers should be wetted, you will need a more ground watering system. With your hands, in this case, make from a suitable material awnings (as for a camp pot) and with a wire fix the bottles closer to the ground on them. Fill them with water, which, incidentally, can be mixed with liquid fertilizers. It turns out at the same time and moisturizing, and nutrition. Just do the same with the vases on the windows, this watering system will suit them. In another way, we can organize drip irrigation from plastic bottles, as already mentioned, by digging them into the ground for about a third. Just be sure to enclose your improvised wells with stones, firmly fix the ground around them so that the bottles do not fall and do not break your seedlings. Replenish water reserves in improvised tanks should be every 2-3 days - depending on the intensity of its consumption.
We offer you such a creative approach to the irrigation system!