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Saving Water When Using SprinklersWhen watering your lawn by using sprinklers, make sure the water is not hitting your house (ex. siding, windows, or foundation walls), only the grass, flowers, and bushes.

 

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Use a Timer When Watering Your Garden Or LawnSet a timer and water your garden at the same time your sprinklers water your lawn.

 

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Using Soaker Hoses With Hard WaterDo you live in a hard water area and use soaker hoses to irrigate your garden area? Do the pores plug up with mineral deposits after a few months and then not ooze water where you want it? Try punching holes in the hoses with the finest needle you can find in the exact places you want it to water a plant.

 

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Watering Strawberry PlantersFor those of you with strawberry planters, here's a tip on how to water them without having it run out the sides. Drill several holes into a PVC pipe that's a little longer than the height of your planter, then insert it down the middle of the planter.

 

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Homemade Drip Irrigation HoseIf you have an old or cracked garden hose lying around it's pretty easy to turn it into a drip irrigation hose. Use an ice pick or other sharp implement to poke holes in the hose.

 

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Self-Watering SystemWe are going on vacation and I would like to know about the self-watering system for plants using gallon milk jugs. I remember something about putting rocks in the jug, poking holes and sticking it in the ground next to the plants.

 

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Make Your Own Irrigation for SaplingsWe planted starter trees from an online nursery this year and I wanted to share our experience as to how to keep them watered well without irrigation. I planted trees as to nursery instructions but it said to keep them watered well through summer.

 

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Use Recycled Buckets for IrrigationI live on a hobby farm and we've planted an orchard on our property. With the droughts that have been going on we didn't want to lose any trees. My husband came up with this idea on his own a few years ago ...

 

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Saving Your Garden from Torrential RainLast year, around the end of summer, there was a big storm that formed off the coast of Baja California. We saw it on the Weather Channel. We live in the Midwest, and we had no reason to believe that storm could possibly come our way, but it did.

 

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Garden Irrigation System With Recycled MaterialsWant to feed your plants while you are away for the weekend? Well I have carried out a school project where each child has a grow bag growing vegetables and flowers.

 

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Use Soaker Hoses In Conjunction With PVCI have an idea for watering gardens outdoors but with health problems haven't been able to actually do it yet. If anyone does it, I'd sure appreciate a feedback to let me know how it works!

 

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Watering Tomatoes Underground With PVC PipeThe best way I found to water tomatoes underground is some PVC pipe with holes drilled in it and then covered with one leg of panty hose and buried as deep or deeper than you bury the roots of your plants.

 

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Save On Watering By Collecting Rain WaterPlace a bucket under the window a/c to catch the water or insert a long hose that reaches your plants. I also keep a big tub ready for downpours to catch the rain water, which I use for plants or to wash my car. My grandmother used to wash our hair with rain water.

 

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Using Recycled Hoses For Drip IrrigationMost gardeners have hoses that leak. At times I've moved around 200 feet of hose, watering my flower beds and garden, invariably all the pulling creates weak hoses. I take those old hoses and add more holes along the whole length of hose about a foot apart.

 

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Deep Watering Hanging Baskets and ContainersA simple way to ensure that water gets to the heart of your basket or container is to insert a piece of hose or pipe long enough to reach the centre of the container. For hanging baskets often two are required, one each side.

 

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Make a Soaker Hose for a GreenhouseWith these small cheap greenhouses that are plastic covered and are good for propagating seeds and cuttings, this a good way to water your seed trays and pots without the real risk of drenching and getting droop and rot.

 

droopy vine growing in 5 gallon bucket

Keep Your Garden Properly WateredWhoever coined the phrase 'Cool as a cucumber', was not experiencing 106 and higher, heat indexes. There actually are cases where watering plants may have to be done two and three times a day.

 

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Bottle Feeding My Tomato PlantsTake an empty clear plastic water bottle, cut off the bottom, drill a hole or bang a nail hole thru the plastic cap, and screw the cap back on to the neck of the bottle.

 

A diagram showing a plant watering system for on vacation.

Water Plants While On VacationI had never found a system to water the plants when going on vacation that would water the plants only when they need to be watered like a good gardener would. But then I found this system that corrects this flaw:

 

Catch Rain Water for Plants in a Baby Pool - jugs, bucket, pool straight on shot

Catch Rain Water for Plants in a Baby PoolIn the corners of our house, the water shoots over the gutter guards when it rains hard.

 

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Plastic Bottles to Keep a Plant WateredTo help keep our garden plants watered, this year we tried burying soda bottles, with holes in them, beside the tomato, squash and cucumber plants leaving the opening exposed. To easily fill the bottles, we used a flex funnel and the garden hose. The bottles worked very well to help keep the plants watered and we will be doing it again next year. The garden has just about given out and we have removed all the bottles that are no longer used, rinsed them and put them in the recycling bin.

 

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