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Garden Drip Watering Spikes

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Eco-friendly drip systems to save water and keep your plants thriving all summer!

 

Global warming has brought long hot summers to many areas of the planet where regular rain showers were the norm during the summer months and where checks on water consumption and the threat of drought were previously unheard of...

There are, however, a few solutions to the problem of watering plants responsibly and this lens is designed to introduce a few of them.

Terracotta Watering Spikes or Carrots 

Smaller plants can be watered successfully even in high summer using watering carrots. These carrots are in fact hollow terracotta cones attached to narrow plastic tubes. The carrots are filled with water and pushed into the soil near the roots of the plant, whilst the weighted end of the tube is placed in a reservoir of water. As the soil dries and the roots need water, the carrot becomes the water resource; water is drawn by capillary action through the tube, then into the carrot, which being made of porous terracotta, is then drawn into the surrounding soil.

They work brilliantly with spider plants and can be used with any plants that require constant watering or damp soil such as hydrangeas or azaleas.

terracotta watering carrot

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Shop for all the eco-friendly drip watering spikes featured in this lens for watering plants, flowers and vegetables in your garden, vegetable patch or on you balcony in containers, as well as other more traditional irrigation and sprinkler systems to keep your lawn looking lovely all year round!

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Watering Spikes and Auto Drip Waterers 

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Watering spikes with reserves of up to 2 litres of water are also the perfect solution when one is going away for a period of several weeks at a time. Whereas costly drip irrigation systems connected to the mains are not always suitable for a smaller balcony or back yard, the watering spike is an inexpensive system that utilizes recycled soft drinks bottles attached to a drip nozzle.

The water drips faster or slower according to the ambient temperature and can be regulated for shade or full sun; the drip attachment fits most screw top bottles but tough well formed plastic bottles such as 2 litre Coca-Cola bottles work best - NOT flimsy 1 ½ litre water bottles which tend to buckle. Even water guzzling papyrus thrives on this system in summer in Rome!

watering spike

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Watering systems also available at Amazon.com 

Vacation Water Dripper | Waters Your Bonsai While You're Away - By joebonsai

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Green Thumb Innovations 5WS WaterSpike

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Posted April 18, 2008

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Excellent information. I am going to give water spikes a try!
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Born in Taunton, UK in 1968. Studied Fine Art at Reading University, then moved from England to Italy in 1994. Now divide my time between Rome and the foothills of the Sibillini Mountains, Le Marche where I've restored several farmhouses and town houses.

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