Simple and ingenious - tomato watering with the bottle
If the thermometer rises, it turns to water thirsty tomato plants for permanent employment. Watering can after watering can is poured into the bed and Glasshouse dragged because the leaves are allowed due to threatening Late blight don't get wet. The effort is cut at least in half if you just bottle the tomatoes. This is how the simple and clever principle works:
- fill a disused glass or PET bottle with water
- Turn it around in a flash and stick it in the ground next to a tomato plant
- the water is continuously released from the bottle to the roots
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The dosage of the irrigation water can be regulated even more effectively with the help of irrigation tips from the garden center or hardware store. The inexpensive attachments fit on every standard mineral water bottle.
How a flower pot waters tomato plants
A classic clay flower pot can be transformed into an intelligent one in no time at all Irrigation system(€ 32.95 at Amazon *) for tomatoes in Outdoors and in the greenhouse. Knowledgeable hobby gardeners dig the clay pot upright next to the plant and fill it with water. A sufficient amount of moisture continuously reaches the roots. The flower pot is refilled every evening to keep evaporation to a minimum.
Your tomatoes on that balcony water with small clay amphorae that are put in the bucket. Tomato plants in large Pots can also be poured with an upside down small bottle.
Soaking tubing reduces evaporation to a minimum
Since the consumption of water always raises a question of costs, tomato gardeners are increasingly favoring drip irrigation with the help of a pearl hose. It is a perforated one Water hosethat is laid in the bed. Since the water exits very slowly, hardly anything is lost through evaporation. The plant roots, on the other hand, permanently receive the required moisture without a drop reaching the leaves.
Tips & Tricks
A cheap and effective solution for the water supply is a plastic irrigation ring, suitable for all tomatoes in the bed. In the middle of the ring will be the tomato planted. The irrigation water comes into the outer ring and is constantly released to the roots through a small opening.