2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Every year in the summer, we save the garden from drought, that is, we just water it. This, it would seem, is the simplest operation that can be performed on a personal plot. But, despite its simplicity, watering takes quite a lot of time
How to water a garden plot? Watering a garden or a summer cottage is easy. We take buckets, fill them with water and methodically water bush by bush, flower by flower, tree by tree. Well, or you can do it much easier: take a hose, connect it to a street tap and water the plants directly.
But, in addition to the above methods, which are used by almost 90% of summer residents of our huge country, there are more economical (both in terms of water use and in terms of the cost of our time), interesting and simple solutions. Initially, of course, you have to tinker a little, but the result is worth it. The garden will be watered with almost no effort on your part.
So, the first method is drip irrigation
Here for imagination - full scope. You can use the simplest option: buy a ready-made drip hose. But it has one very significant drawback - the holes are located at a certain distance. This means that we initially need to calculate the distances between the planted plants so that it is under them, and not under the weeds, that water gets.
And there are other ways of drip irrigation. For one of them, we'll need old plastic bottles. You need to cut off the bottom of the bottles, then fix (hang) them slightly to the side of the plants, pour water, after which, adjusting the cork, set the liquid flow rate we need. Add water to bottles every few days.
By the way, so that the water does not erode the soil, put either small pieces of plastic or glass (but glass is dangerous).
What are the advantages of this method? Efficiency, watering the root of plants, that is, the weeds will not receive moisture, good heating of the water, which is very important for plants.
But there are also disadvantages: you need a fairly large number of bottles, the need to fix these same bottles.
The second method is also drip irrigation
But the method is somewhat simpler than the first. We take a hose of the required length (to lay it along all the plants), dig a hole 4-5 centimeters deep along them, lay a hose into it. Then we take an awl and carefully pierce the hose in the places we need, next to the plants that need watering, we close the end of the hose with a special stopper so that the water does not flow out. We dig in the hose, then we attach it to the tap or to the pipe and let the water in. The water will slowly come out through the holes we have made, watering the plants.
Pros: efficiency, low water consumption, watering exactly in the places we need.
There are practically no downsides to this method, except for a damaged hose.
Method three - watering with fabric tapes (bundles, wicks)
To perform this "acrobatic trick" we will need empty, but necessarily whole containers. We dig them in in our garden at a distance of a couple of meters from each other or at the beginning of each row (which is undoubtedly better). Yes, yes, all over the garden. Pour water into the container, then cut a ribbon from the fabric with a length equal to the length of the row to be watered, make a small groove along the row, near the plant roots, put our fabric ribbon into it, dig in, and lower the end of the fabric into a container with water. That's it, the irrigation system is ready.
Pros: low-cost, of all methods - this is the most economical, no need to water the garden, just make sure that there is water in the containers.
Cons - preparatory work. Although the pluses more than cover this single minus.
And the last interesting way is watering with plastic bottles
This is the easiest method. We cut off the bottom of plastic bottles, make 4-5 small holes in the lid (so that water does not flow out quickly, then we dig in our "devices" at a distance of 15-20 cm from the root of the plant at an angle of 40 degrees. We fill the bottles with water and that's it. It remains only occasionally check containers for liquid.
Pros: economical, fast, convenient.
Cons: preparatory work.
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