Drought Garden

Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
featherstick
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Re: Drought Garden

Post by featherstick »

PreppingPingu wrote: Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:10 am The other thing is to plant cut off 1 and 2 litre drinks bottles in next to things such as courgettes. When I water, I pour into the bottle where it delivers it deep down, as well as on top of the soil. I am going to try next year some bottle with just small holes in them for a trickle feed and others as a larger open feed into the ground.
I've done the "small holes - trickle feed" thing, I found it less useful as the holes blocked up really quickly and the plant didn't get the water it needed. But yes the deep delivery works well, and if used with a mulch really promotes growth.

Chucking it down here now. It started drizzling on Tuesday, I ran up to the allotment at 11pm to put slug pellets down when it started!
Arzosah
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Re: Drought Garden

Post by Arzosah »

Sparked by the view outside my kitchen window (i.e. currently obscured 50% by raindrops, in the last 12 hours) how do drought gardens stand up to sudden downpours like this?