Posted by admin | Posted in Plants | Posted on 21-03-2010
If I go away for a week, the Texas summer is very hard on my potted plants (peppers, tomatoes, herbs) because I have no one to water them for me. I’ve tried googling for a potted plant slow-release watering system I can put into my plant (changing pots not an option, this would be temporary thing) but can’t find anything.
Everything is set up for a huge garden and I’m looking for a couple of plants in pots!
I need something I can stick into my plants, leave for the week, and then come back and still have alive, healthy plants.
Thanks!
I repeat, "I have no one to water them for me".
I thought this would be too long-winded to add to the original question, but this will be a gift for my fiance, who is currently mourning the loss of his usual summer potted plants because he had to leave for a week. Little rainfall in his area of Texas.
I’m quite certain there are water ration laws where he is that forbids water consumption during certain hours/days, and I doubt he has access to an outdoor hose faucet. It is also unsafe to have it running from inside his apartment, say through a window, while he is away from the premises.
This device from a garden store that you can attach to a 2 litre bottle of water sounds ideal. It’s what I’ve been trying to find online with no luck. Where can I order one?
a neighbor kid??
a neighbor kid??
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a person that you trust very much, maybe a friend
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Put ‘em in the shade in a kiddie pool with water almost to the top of the pots. Make sure there are a couple holes in the bottom of the pots to absorb the H2O.
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They sell these things at the garden store , you screw them onto a 2 liter bottle filled with water, stick it upside down in the pot or next to the plant and it gradually waters them for you.
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Surely you can get a timer for your hose – so when you’ve done that, instead of hooking the hose up to a sprinkler system, poke holes in the hose – space them so they will drip into your pots. You can buy bits (they look like hollow toothpicks) which you can stick one end in the hose and the other in the soil. Otherwise, you can cut up drinking straws.
It’s a do-it-yourself job, but it works!
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I assume these are outdoors. If they are you can get one of those water hoses with the holes made into it that acts as a sort of misting water hose.
Then you can put it over the plants and let it stay on just enough to keep them wet or get a timer to go on it and let it just come on once a day.
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I saw this stuff in the garden center at wal-mart and in the hardware store. it is a gel spike you can place in the pot and it will keep the soil moist…I tried it on my hanging basket and it worked. a cheaper way of doing the same thing is to buy unflavored gelatin, water your plants really well and add the diluted gelatin to your plants. or you could do the old time trick of putting your pots into a shallow pan of water before you leave and try and keep it out of direct sunlight if possible.
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