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- How to ensure the irrigation of your balcony plants on vacation
- 4 tips for bridging a few days
- The best methods for a long vacation
- Pet bottle
- Watering cone or ball
- bathtub
- Tips
PET bottles make it easy to create an irrigation system
How to ensure the irrigation of your balcony plants on vacation
Finally, the holiday is here, the pen is dropped, the bags packed quickly and let's go ... But stop! What about the lovingly maintained and cultivated balcony plants? If you can not find a friendly neighbor or a helpful friend who will do the job while you are away, then you need a proven DIY system.
4 tips for bridging a few days
If only a few days are to be bridged, for example, because you are only traveling over the weekend, measures such as these are usually sufficient:
When pouring, make sure that excess irrigation water can drain off, as otherwise the roots may rot - too much moisture does not tolerate most potted plants.
The best methods for a long vacation
If, on the other hand, you spend more than a few days on holiday, you must of course produce a more productive irrigation system. Either you now spend a lot of money on a corresponding system from the retailer. In doing so, you can look no further than the evaluations of Stiftung Warentest, which did not take a closer look at some of the most popular products until 2019. You can also try one of the following DIY systems.
Pet bottle
The PET bottle or glass flipped upside down into the substrate is probably one of the best-known (and simplest) irrigation systems, but it does have some pitfalls.
Watering cone or ball
The bottle method works most reliably if, instead of the perforated lid, you screw a plastic or clay watering cone onto the neck of the bottle. This ensures that the water is released slowly and evenly. Also very practical - and working on the same principle - are so-called irrigation balls, which are often made of glass.
bathtub
The bathtub has also proven itself, which you can lay out with thick towels and let in water about five centimeters deep. There you put the balcony plants, but only in the plant pot and without planter.
Tips
If you are traveling longer than one to two weeks, it makes sense to buy an automatic pumping system. You can build this yourself with some manual skill.