"Timothy Murphy" wrote in message
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I have a fairly large balcony in Italy,
with table and chairs on it,
and my wife wants to put several large pot-plants there.
I'm wondering about the best way to keep them damp
during our absence?

The balcony is off the kitchen, so I could (possibly)
get an outdoor tap on the balcony,
and some sort of automatic watering system.
(We have a Hozelock automatic system in the small garden,
which works perfectly.)

But is there any other, simpler, solution?


Possibly a microbore tube watering system fed off a water butt on the
balcony which is in turn fed from the guttering?
This could provide all year watering, and you would just have to top up the
water butt if there was not enough rain.
Possibly better than a system connected to the mains because there is a
limit to the amount of water you can feed to the plants whatever component
fails.

I assume you do not expect much rain whilst you are not there to tend to the
plants.

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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