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- Watering balcony plants on holiday - Tips & Tricks
- Building holiday watering yourself - that's how you do it right
- Plastic bottle method - this is how it works
- Tips
With the help of a few tricks, the plants can provide themselves with water
Watering balcony plants on holiday - Tips & Tricks
From now on your balcony plants are no longer to be regarded, that you are in a well deserved vacation. Just a few simple steps are enough to allow plants in the planter and tub to use their own water supply. This guide will inform you about the best ways to irrigate balcony plants on vacation.
Building holiday watering yourself - that's how you do it right
The following irrigation method was put to the test by critical balcony gardeners and assessed as recommendable. The material requirement per plant container is limited to 1 bucket, 1 roll of kitchen paper, 1 pair of scissors and stale water. How to construct automatic vacation irrigation:
Press the roll of paper onto the substrate for a firm ground contact. Put the long end of the roll in the water bucket. While you are recovering on vacation, the balcony plant pulls the water over the roll of paper into the substrate and thus pours itself.
Plastic bottle method - this is how it works
The clever combination of a PET bottle and a clay cone with a rotating thread acts as a magical plant sitter for the holiday season. The bottle is filled with fresh water after cleaning. The previous twist lock you exchange for a clay watering cone. The material is sufficiently porous so that the capillary forces of the plant soil can gradually remove the water from it.
For the irrigation of large balcony boxes and tubs, the water supply of a commercial PET bottle is not enough. In this case, the retailer offers clay cone, which are connected with a thin tube to an external water tank. This variant also works without electricity and supplies your balcony plants with water until you return.
Tips
If a perennial balcony plant - despite all efforts - has withered after the holiday, please do not throw away the perennial. Instead of disposing of the strained plant, you awaken the floral spirits with a vitalizing treatment. For this purpose, cut off all wilted, pound the root ball and soak it in water until no more air bubbles rise. Transplanted in fresh substrate, there are good prospects that the plant will recover.