I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

In article ,
Dave_s wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microclimate

Some time a small change can enable a plant to live. Thinking of Hopi
and hilling to collect dew and reduce dry wind.

Bill

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/757.html What is Global Dimming??
Less light more shade world wide food implications
Reduction of Vitamin D too?

On 1/15/2010 7:08 AM, Dave_s wrote:
I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

When I see something unusual in my neighborhood, I go up to the house,
ring the doorbell, and ask.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:
http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

On Jan 15, 12:56*pm, gardengal wrote:
On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

Will that work fore deer? Mytholigicaly of course
MJ

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:10:47 -0800 (PST), mj
wrote:

On Jan 15, 12:56*pm, gardengal wrote:
On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

You'd lose every time.

Will that work fore deer?

Pre deer?

On Jan 15, 4:25*pm, brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:10:47 -0800 (PST), mj
wrote:



On Jan 15, 12:56*pm, gardengal wrote:
On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

You'd lose every time.

Will that work fore deer?

Pre deer?

I am not sure ( other than the typo) where that went. I was asking if
the water filled plastic jugs would keep deer away as well as the myth
about dogs.

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s


Recently, I put a clear half-gallon jug of water in the bird seed
tray, mainly to weight it down and stabilize it. Some birds were
afraid of the distorted images seen. Nuthatch and titmouse don't seem
to mind. A pin hole in a gallon jug of water will help give a new
transplant a good and slow soaking.

Dave_s wrote:
I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear
plastic. Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see
so many that I wonder "...are these containers put there to benefit
the flowers or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

One possibility is that they do not want dogs to pee on their garden. There
was a idea going around a while ago that said that dogs will not urinate in
clean water and so this will stop them doing it. As far as I know it is
totally bogus.

David

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:56:14 -0800 (PST), gardengal
wrote:

On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

Never heard that one but I fill up containers with water and let them
sit in the sun to evaporate the chemicals in the city water. I
usually leave them out 24 hours. Learned it from a neighbor - made
sense to me. Maybe that's what your neighbors are doing.

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:18:52 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:56:14 -0800 (PST), gardengal
wrote:

On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

Never heard that one but I fill up containers with water and let them
sit in the sun to evaporate the chemicals in the city water. I
usually leave them out 24 hours. Learned it from a neighbor - made
sense to me. Maybe that's what your neighbors are doing.

Which chemicals... only chlorine and flouride are possible additives,
only chlorine will evaporate. Chlorine will evaporate whether your
containers are placed in the sun or in a dark basement, so long as
your containers are open and offer a great surface area, which of
course exposes your water to lots of schmutz. Exposing water to the
sun's UV rays will kill some bacteria but the sun will warm the water
causing bacteria growth to escalate much faster than the UV rays can
kill, in effect you'll be drinking pond water... I suggest you boil
your evaporated water before drinking it because you've just negated
your water company's purification efforts. In essence your neighbor
has you behaving like Pavlav's dog, does he at least reward you with
little woof-woof biscuits? Have you ever considered using a filter
for drinking water, reverse osmosis filters work very well. Or you
can simply do as your neighbor while he's laughing his ass off
watching you hustle jugs of water in and out like Gunga Din... you can
bet your bippee he ain't drinking any **** warm pond water tepid from
the sun, he's drinking ice cold long neck brewskis. LOL-LOL

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:18:52 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:56:14 -0800 (PST), gardengal
wrote:

On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

Never heard that one but I fill up containers with water and let them
sit in the sun to evaporate the chemicals in the city water. I
usually leave them out 24 hours. Learned it from a neighbor - made
sense to me. Maybe that's what your neighbors are doing.

You replace the chlorine with pthalates and BPA.
--
HP Pavillion zd8000
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
512 Megabytes Installed Memory
2.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4

brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:
http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

I looked at at least three different gardens with water filled jugs
recently. Jugs are as you described (beverage) but all are standing up,
not upside down or inverted. Thanks for the link to the drip watering
device. Also, these jugs remain in there same positions for weeks
without being moved.

Will have to ask if "dogs not peeing" is the reason or what else?

I thank you all for the helpful comments.

Dave_s

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:13:34 -0500, brooklyn1
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:18:52 -0600, wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:56:14 -0800 (PST), gardengal
wrote:

On Jan 15, 8:30*am, brooklyn1 wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:08:42 -0800, Dave_s
wrote:

I see at several front yard gardens in my neighborhood, plastic 1/2
gallon containers located in their garden beds. Each is a clear plastic.
Each is filled with clear liquid, probably just water. I see so many
that I wonder "...are these *containers put there to benefit the flowers
or vegetables?
I am located in Panorama City, CA at zip 91402.

Dave_s

Sounds like what you're seeing are inverted 2 liter plastic beverage
bottles with "Aqua Spikes" attached... these water plants slowly like
drip watering and their flow rate is adjustable:http://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Cone-Spik.../dp/B001ESSJOQ

There is an urban myth that water-filled plastic jugs spaced
strategically along the edges of the garden will keep dogs from
entering and/or peeing on vulnerable plants. It is not an uncommon
practice in suburban areas but there really is no scientific basis
behind the theory. I'd bet good money this is what's going on with
your 'plantings' of plastic bottles or jugs.

Never heard that one but I fill up containers with water and let them
sit in the sun to evaporate the chemicals in the city water. I
usually leave them out 24 hours. Learned it from a neighbor - made
sense to me. Maybe that's what your neighbors are doing.

Which chemicals... only chlorine and flouride are possible additives,
only chlorine will evaporate. Chlorine will evaporate whether your
containers are placed in the sun or in a dark basement, so long as
your containers are open and offer a great surface area, which of
course exposes your water to lots of schmutz. Exposing water to the
sun's UV rays will kill some bacteria but the sun will warm the water
causing bacteria growth to escalate much faster than the UV rays can
kill, in effect you'll be drinking pond water... I suggest you boil
your evaporated water before drinking it because you've just negated
your water company's purification efforts. In essence your neighbor
has you behaving like Pavlav's dog, does he at least reward you with
little woof-woof biscuits? Have you ever considered using a filter
for drinking water, reverse osmosis filters work very well. Or you
can simply do as your neighbor while he's laughing his ass off
watching you hustle jugs of water in and out like Gunga Din... you can
bet your bippee he ain't drinking any **** warm pond water tepid from
the sun, he's drinking ice cold long neck brewskis. LOL-LOL

And neither am I. I water the garden with it. Sorry that wasn't
clear.