If your summer cottage has a garden and a vegetable garden, you Willy-nilly get him into slavery if not for a lifetime, then the whole spring-summer-fall season. Landing require loosening, weeding, vaccinations, feeding, watering... in short, every Friday the gardener hurries on his six acres. A particularly hot summer watering once per week is unavoidable, as the sun quickly dries water, leaving green friends without life-giving water.
However, there are ways dosed subsurface irrigation, allowing with a minimum amount of water to deliver precious water directly to roots, providing continuous moisture distribution in various plants - flowers, bushes and trees. With a reasonable use of our method can to leave the site unattended for three to four weeks.
First you need to find the right water tank is suitable here plastic cans or bottles of carbonated beverages. In the lower part each, near the bottom you need to make a few tiny holes - the easiest way to melt them with a hot needle. The hole diameter is chosen empirically so that the water flowed from the canister for two or three days.
Further capacity penetrate into the ground around the plants, and the lower part, where are the holes, wrapped with burlap or fiberglass, and on top of it stretched nylon or elastic stocking will prevent the soil silting the tiny holes in the plastic. Anyway, that's all. Only pour water in the tank - and you can be for the plants calm: for the week of moisture them enough.
Watering device can be upgraded to complement his so-called "drinker" of water-filled plastic bottle, mounted on the canister. Should decrease the water level in the canister, such as bottle restores the status quo and bring the water level in the canister to the former.
The simplest devices for metered underground irrigation using plastic cans and bottles of carbonated beverages and polystyrene tubes
A device for automatically dosed underground irrigation of fruit trees with polistirolnymi pipes, dispensers
A device for automatic underground irrigation metered and shrubs beds with dispenser-hose
A device for automatically dosed underground irrigation shrub with dispensers-bottles(plan view)
However, all these devices are unlikely to be able to let go of you once a month vacation. For such a big break in watering will be required and more complex watering machine. But this complexity does not become an obstacle for any home craftsman.
Such automatic metered underground irrigation can provide water not already one, but a whole group of plants or all plants on the site. If the allotment there is a centralized water supply, it can work without your participation all the holiday season, saving you from this tedious work. You can do without water, setting on the section of the water tank - the old tub or one or two barrels; with a reserve of water the machine will work month.
The basis of the watering machine is buried in the soil of the float chamber, composed of any suitable capacity - cropped plastic or aluminum cans, pots. of cans, etc. - and secured in a conventional float the flush valve from the toilet tank. The container is equipped with an outlet, which a rubber hose is connected with a metering device (as in the first version - small plastic containers), bottles of soda or (for watering fruit trees) for plastic pipe used in laying of the power cable.
Excellent results are obtained by using as a dispenser plastic hose produced for watering the garden. You only need to melt in it with a hot needle, a small hole, to bury it to a depth of bayonet spade in the middle of the rows or rings around the berry bushes and connected to the float camera. The free end of the hose to muffle tube.
Just open the faucet supplying water to the float chamber and the water will fill it up until it will not install certain level. As the infiltration rates the level will decrease, opens the float valve and the water level is restored.
Author: I. Galkin