Free irrigation for your garden using recycled materials
Discussion on how to use recycled materials to irrigate your vegetable garden.
Home made liquid fertilizer can also be added at the same time.
Please contribute your ideas to this discussion so a wide experience of gardener innovators and learn from each other?
I am experimenting with drip irrigation using pots with holes in them. See below. I partly bury the pot. Then I add some sand or soil to slow the flow. This means I can water in less time, leave more water per plant and use liquid nutrient instead of just water. I make my own compost tea.
This SlideShare tells how to make liquid nutrient fertilizer for plants and how to drip feed water and nutrient to a large garden at almost no cost.
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What frugal and free ways can you suggest to drip irrigate your vegetable plants?
Share your cool way to irrigate plants.
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How do you keep mosquitoes down with the standing water? Do you know if mesh to cover the top would do it. I love the idea, but despise mosquitoes!
This may help: “The most effective control measure is to prevent access of adult mosquitoes. If access has occurred remedial action can be taken to prevent the release of mosquitoes.
To prevent mosquito breeding and contamination, its vital guttering and pipework should be self-draining or fitted with drainage points.
Ensure that unless in use all access points excluding the inlet and any overflows are kept shut with close fitting lids that will prevent access of mosquitoes.
Inlets and overflows should be covered with closely fitting removable insect-proof screens. The screens should be made of non-rust material formed, typically, with 0.315 mm diameter material and 6×7 mesh openings per cm2. The screens should be readily accessible for regular cleaning.” 1
1. Mosquitoes in Water Tanks
http://water-tank-secrets.com/water-tank-hazards/mosquitoes-in-water-tanks/
When growing seedlings, do we put 1 pot between 2 plants or surround one pot with several plants?
1. Collect some old pots that have held plants in them.
2.Put the big pots in your garden. Each pot should have about 3 litre capacity. Space pots so a plant can grow tall between any two pots. Like this:
Plant — Pot — Plant — pot — Plant — pot — plant
3. Grow your plants in a nursery area in small pots until they are bigger, then transplant into the garden between irrigation pots.