Plastic Jugs Provide "Spot Irrigation"
When the weather turned dry last summer, our garden plants needed a drink - even though we had planted everything under black greenhouse fabric on strips of carpet. We decided to make our own "spot irrigation" system by using small diameter electric fence posts with plastic jugs "stabbed" onto them. They worked great.
We used a garden hose to fill the gallon or half gallon jugs while standing upright (important for senior citizens!), then slide the jugs down the posts to ground level and let the water drip out slowly. The system worked well until we finally got a good rain.
We used the same idea on a few blueberry and blackberry plants, only this time we used 5 to 7-gal. plastic buckets. First we drilled a 1/4-in. dia. hole in the bottom of each bucket. Then we placed the buckets near the plants and filled them with water.
We finally got a good rain. However, we could see the difference in the size of the blueberries due to the extra water applied when it was most needed.
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Plastic Jugs Provide "Spot Irrigation"
FARM HOME Miscellaneous 32-3-34 When the weather turned dry last summer, our garden plants needed a drink - even though we had planted everything under black greenhouse fabric on strips of carpet. We decided to make our own "spot irrigation" system by using small diameter electric fence posts with plastic jugs "stabbed" onto them. They worked great.
We used a garden hose to fill the gallon or half gallon jugs while standing upright (important for senior citizens!), then slide the jugs down the posts to ground level and let the water drip out slowly. The system worked well until we finally got a good rain.
We used the same idea on a few blueberry and blackberry plants, only this time we used 5 to 7-gal. plastic buckets. First we drilled a 1/4-in. dia. hole in the bottom of each bucket. Then we placed the buckets near the plants and filled them with water.
We finally got a good rain. However, we could see the difference in the size of the blueberries due to the extra water applied when it was most needed.
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