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Could someone recommend a watering device for a 10 x 6 greenhouse. It is only needed when I go on holiday. the time I require is 1 minute about every 2 days. Also it needs to be easy to set. I just want a simple one! I have no-one reliable to water for me. Thanks in advance. Ann |
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On 14/03/2012 08:47, Ann Lancing wrote:
Could someone recommend a watering device for a 10 x 6 greenhouse. It is only needed when I go on holiday. the time I require is 1 minute about every 2 days. Also it needs to be easy to set. I just want a simple one! I have no-one reliable to water for me. Thanks in advance. Ann We have a HozeLock system that has worked fine for 2 years. It delivers water relatively slowly so you would probably need to set to say 15 mins. Paul |
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On 14/03/2012 08:47, Ann Lancing wrote:
Could someone recommend a watering device for a 10 x 6 greenhouse. It is only needed when I go on holiday. the time I require is 1 minute about every 2 days. That sounds a bit short! Do you have mains water available? If so I'd recommend one of the standard attach to the tap timed valves and thin wall drip or spray irrigation systems. If you have a water sump but no mains water then I have used one of the solar fountain pumps on a timer to supply presurissed water to a standard hoselock irrigation system (needs a nylon stocking over the intake to avoid ajmming the jets with mosquito larvae). http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/garden/water/fountain.htm (towards the bottom of the page) Also it needs to be easy to set. I just want a simple one! I have no-one reliable to water for me. One thing I would recommend is run the thing as if you *are* away for at least a fortnight ahead of your trip so that you can tune it to do what you want. It is very easy to come back and find some plants under waters and others bone dry if you don't thoroughly test it. Thanks in advance. Ann Another trick for spot watering is a lemonade bottle with some black tape at the top. You adjust the amount of tape to get the watering rate right. A thin brass pipe curved over at the top through the screw cap with a blob of aradite or silicone rubber to make a gas tight seal. Almost fill with it water and put it so the water drips on your plant. In sun the air expands and drives water out of the drip feed. Make sure the sun can't be focussed on anything flammable by the the bottle! Or wrap it with white paper or diffuser. A commercial product similar to this by drip feed which uses the bottle inverted is/was on sale a few years back. It tended to go wrong and discharge an entire bottle overnight sometimes. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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On Mar 14, 10:28*am, Martin Brown
wrote: On 14/03/2012 08:47, Ann Lancing wrote: Could someone recommend a watering device for a 10 x 6 greenhouse. It is only needed when I go on holiday. the time I require is 1 minute about every 2 days. That sounds a bit short! Do you have mains water available? If so I'd recommend one of the standard attach to the tap timed valves and thin wall drip or spray irrigation systems. If you have a water sump but no mains water then I have used one of the solar fountain pumps on a timer to supply presurissed water to a standard hoselock irrigation system (needs a nylon stocking over the intake to avoid ajmming the jets with mosquito larvae). http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/garden/water/fountain.htm (towards the bottom of the page) Also it needs to be easy to set. I just want a simple one! I have no-one reliable to water for me. One thing I would recommend is run the thing as if you *are* away for at least a fortnight ahead of your trip so that you can tune it to do what you want. It is very easy to come back and find some plants under waters and others bone dry if you don't thoroughly test it. Thanks in advance. Ann Another trick for spot watering is a lemonade bottle with some black tape at the top. You adjust the amount of tape to get the watering rate right. A thin brass pipe curved over at the top through the screw cap with a blob of aradite or silicone rubber to make a gas tight seal. Almost fill with it water and put it so the water drips on your plant. In sun the air expands and drives water out of the drip feed. Make sure the sun can't be focussed on anything flammable by the the bottle! Or wrap it with white paper or diffuser. A commercial product similar to this by drip feed which uses the bottle inverted is/was on sale a few years back. It tended to go wrong and discharge an entire bottle overnight sometimes. -- Regards, Martin Brown You don't say what you want to water, is it a tomato crop planted into the soil, grow bags or a series of pots on slatted bench or pots on capilary matting? |
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Hello Dave,
On Mar 14, 10:28 am, Martin Brown wrote: On 14/03/2012 08:47, Ann Lancing wrote: Could someone recommend a watering device for a 10 x 6 greenhouse. It is only needed when I go on holiday. the time I require is 1 minute about every 2 days. That sounds a bit short! Do you have mains water available? If so I'd recommend one of the standard attach to the tap timed valves and thin wall drip or spray irrigation systems. If you have a water sump but no mains water then I have used one of the solar fountain pumps on a timer to supply presurissed water to a standard hoselock irrigation system (needs a nylon stocking over the intake to avoid ajmming the jets with mosquito larvae). http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/garden/water/fountain.htm (towards the bottom of the page) Also it needs to be easy to set. I just want a simple one! I have no-one reliable to water for me. One thing I would recommend is run the thing as if you *are* away for at least a fortnight ahead of your trip so that you can tune it to do what you want. It is very easy to come back and find some plants under waters and others bone dry if you don't thoroughly test it. Thanks in advance. Ann Another trick for spot watering is a lemonade bottle with some black tape at the top. You adjust the amount of tape to get the watering rate right. A thin brass pipe curved over at the top through the screw cap with a blob of aradite or silicone rubber to make a gas tight seal. Almost fill with it water and put it so the water drips on your plant. In sun the air expands and drives water out of the drip feed. Make sure the sun can't be focussed on anything flammable by the the bottle! Or wrap it with white paper or diffuser. A commercial product similar to this by drip feed which uses the bottle inverted is/was on sale a few years back. It tended to go wrong and discharge an entire bottle overnight sometimes. -- Regards, Martin Brown You don't say what you want to water, is it a tomato crop planted into the soil, grow bags or a series of pots on slatted bench or pots on capilary matting? It is for geraniums I have overwintered, some on the soil base and some on slatted staging. Mainly at this time of the year. Ann |
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