any tips, tricks or cheats on how to make one?
I'm going away fro a fortnight and I have a 10 X 7 greenhouse to water,
tomatoes and chilli plants, some in bags and some directly in the soil.
I have access to lots of tubing etc and time, but very little in the
way of
spare cash (need it for my hols!)

I thought that I was being clever, I found a spare length of hosepipe and
made holes in it, all I have to do, I thought, was put it in the
greenhouse wind it round the base of the toms. etc you still with me :-)
then attach it to the longer bit that was connected to the tap, turn the
tap on and hey presto, watering done. What dawned on me too late was that
the water tap was lower than the greenhouse and I could not get enough
pressure for the water to flow out of all my neatly made holes,my next
good idea is ........ well I don't know yet its too hot to think :-)


The water tap isn't connected to mains pressure then? The problem with
this set up is that you can get syphoning back, ie if you were trying to
top up a water butt from this tap, you can end up syphoning water from the
butt into your domestic system, which is known in technical terms as a bad
thing. At the very least you should have an anti syphon device (one-way
valve) in the feed to this tap.

Steve
yes the water tap is connected to the mains but when I turned the tap on
full it blew the hose connection off, they are all a bit old maybe I need
new hose and bits that go with it or maybe I still just use the hose and try
not to be clever but it would have been nice if it had worked :-)

kate