We save water. Drip irrigation by one's own hands

Dacha and gardeners living in the vastness of our vast homeland, rarely use such a miracle of modern technology, like drip irrigation. With this hands, this unit produced even fewer land owners. This is not surprising, because in our country a large number of rivers and lakes are enough to worry about a possible drought. But in vain. Drip irrigation saves not only water, but also time. This method of watering plants has already become the main one in countries where there is a deficit of fresh water. To make drip irrigation by one's own hands is not a difficult task, as the prototype of this system was the well-known medical dropper.

The essence of the method

Agronomists have long studied how much water is needed for this or that kind of plant. To reduce water consumption and to provide crops with the necessary amount of moisture, drip irrigation will help. The scheme is quite simple: pipes are laid along each row of the plant, each of them has a number of holes, and drippers are inserted into the holes, supplying the life-giving moisture directly to the roots of each plant. Thus, irrigation is carried out. This irrigation system has one more important plus: since moisture is directed only to the roots of your chosen plant, the weeds do not receive the proper amount of water and, as a result, grow worse. Our inventive fellow citizens came up with many ways how to make drip irrigation with their own hands. What to choose, decide for yourself!

How to make drip irrigation yourself?

Method number 1

This method is ideal for irrigation of chaotically planted trees. In order to provide irrigation of the tree, you will need:

• Pipe section;
• A tube from a dropper;
• A container - a can of water.

To begin with, it is necessary to dig small pits (pits) not more than half a meter deep and no more than 20 centimeters in diameter. Shafts should be placed below the periphery of the tree crown. The pier is filled up to the middle with small stones, in this layer we slightly deepen the length of the pipe. Next, the layer is covered with a film, leaving a cutout under the pipe. After this, the hole must be buried with earth so that a piece of pipe protrudes above the surface. Near the pit a container with water is installed, into which one end of the tube from the dropper descends. The other end is lowered into a pipe protruding from the ground. All. You have drip irrigation yourself!

Method number 2

For irrigation using this method, you will only need flexible tubes from droppers and a barrel of water. A barrel is installed half a meter above the ground. A piece of foam with holes is dropped into it, through which tubes are passed. Next, each tube is fed to the plant. Everything is simple enough. For watering plants, warm water is used from the top layer. By the way, in a similar way, you can organize and fertilizing plants. Hang in a tree crown a bucket (or a five-liter bottle) with a fertilizer dissolved in water, install the tube from the dropper and point it to the roots of the tree. That's all. You just have to make sure that the water in the containers you have installed does not run out.

If such methods seem clumsy enough to you or you do not have the opportunity to make drip irrigation yourself, you can buy it in specialized stores.