What would you do when you finish drinking water from the mineral water bottle? Crush it and throw out? Or Put it in the dust bin near to you? Then wait! Think before you throw it. Nowadays, people are finding innovative ways to utilize waste items especially in the farming field.
Drip irrigation with mineral water bottle is an easy way of watering plants. No cost involved in making this. No power or piping required for supplying water. It is very easy to make. Take an empty mineral water bottle. Then make 4 or 5 small holes at the bottom of the bottle with a nail. Now fill the bottle with water and screw the cap back on to keep bugs and debris out of the water reservoir. After that insert and fix the it into the soil (approximately 2 inches) in the pot or sack in which your vegetable plants are growing. That’s it. Your drip irrigation with mineral water bottle is ready. Keep the bottle close to a side of the pot. This is to keep a distance from the plant. Water will slowly flow into the soil in the pot and plant will absorb it as and when required. Water does not overflow from the pot by doing this. Useless plastic becomes useful sometimes.
What I'd like to know is how well this actually works...Our experiment was a bit fancier with a wick going from bottle to the bottom of the bed. In my experience, the bottle holes clog up with soil, so eventually it stops dripping. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteI would say if you holes clog up with soil one of two things has happened: the water level in the bottle has dropped too low to allow the pressure inside the bottle to push the water out, (solution- loosen the cap on the bottle), OR the holes are too small.
ReplyDeleteHey what do you think about putting Cheesecloth to protect the hole and collect rainwater
ReplyDeleteFreeze the water...then turn the bottles upside down...no clogging
ReplyDeleteI tried this, but the water drained out too fast, it was empty within an hour and draining out of the pot. I only put 4 small nail holes in the bottle. Anyone have any luck with this?
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I only put 3 holes in mine and it drained in less than 5 minutes. Maybe the holes are too big? I used kabob skewers to punch the holes. So they are a bit larger than nail holes, I think.
DeleteI did a variation on this with transplanted bushes and trees. I took a gallon water bottle and punched a few holes in the bottom. I put them around the transplanted bush and filled them with water. You control the flow of water by how tight you screw on the cap. A tight seal and you have a slow flow of water. A loose seal and you have a fast flow of water. It took me a few times to get a seal that would release the water over the course of a day. It worked out great and my transplants are now doing great.
DeleteWell what you can do is insert some cotton cord into the holes and let some dangle out into the soil. Just make sure the hole is slightly smaller than the cotton cord or vise versa. The cotton cord will slow the flow. I do this for my rose plant.
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