[Community_garden] Question on watering the garden plants with plastic bottles

[Jennifer L Barricklow]

Hello, Cordalie!

I worked on a CSA where they used plastic milk jugs to keep the zucchini
patch watered. At planting time, a milk jug was buried next to each
plant. The jugs had holes punched in them and were buried just to the
point where the sides begin to narrow towards the neck. The jugs were
filled to water the plants, effectively water the root zones rather than
the leaves. 

I have used soda bottles to provide a form of drip irrigation in my own
gardens. I punched a tiny hole in a bottom corner of each bottle; this
allowed me to position the bottles to water exactly where I wanted and
control the flow of water by loosening or tightening the cap. (The water
can only drip out as fast as the air can get in.) I put a few marbles or
pebbles in the bottles to keep them upright when the water level got low.


Hope this gives you some useful ideas!
Jennifer Barricklow
Lexington KY
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