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With the arrival of the holidays, you start to ask you how you will find your garden and your plants of interior on your return. You think well of your family, your close neighbors or your friends to come to return inspection to your garden in your absence but they are not always available and especially you would prefer not to annoy them with your garden.
There exist several solutions. Moreover more rudimentary the most sophisticated with and this going with that of most economic with most expensive, you will find a solution with your waiting and your budget.
The economic solution par excellence and with the range of very with each one. It is not a question of making the dustbins of your district but simply of keeping your empty plastic bottles in order to re-use them as water reserves.
The principle consists in having the bottles filled with water turned over, the neck inserted in the ground. Watering is done then naturally by gravitation according to the moisture of the ground. All the formats are allowed: 0,5l - 1l - 1,5l - 2l - 5l.
Ideal solution in outside, for your kitchen garden and your solid masses 2.
Pots or vats with tank
We will not be delayed on this solution which in interior is the ideal one but whose esthetics is sometimes debatable.
In outside, it finds its limits beyond 15 days of absence. Ideal for your of balconies, terraces, your flowers stand of plants of ornament.
Cores
There it is not a question to sow rows of cores but of set up of the water scatters whose form refers to vegetable of the same name. They are connected to a tank which their provided water necessary.
This water tank perhaps consisted any container: a basin, a bucket out of plastic,… Volume must be in relation to the duration, moreover cover it to avoid too much evaporation.
Ideal: in interior and outside, for the plants out of isolated pot which it will be advisable to gather around your water reserve. It is also appropriate for the flowers stand without or with tank (to which it comes in supplement).
Astuteness: in outside, place in with respect to your suspended flowers stand, one second suspended flower stand which you will fill with water. Your balcony will remain flowered in your absence.
Systems of waterings
The systems of automatic watering will allow you a greater flexibility in the management of your watering with the possibility of:
- to adapt the flows according to your plants
- to program the frequency of waterings and their duration
However, they require to be to install 15 days before your departure in order to check good walk and to supervise of it the adequacy of the volume of water poured with the needs for the plants.
This solution proves to be most expensive. However, under consideration within the framework of the daily watering of your garden, it becomes most interesting by far.
The system of watering with a pump
The system of watering is made up:
- of a built-in programmer transformer
- of a pump low tension immersed in a water tank
- of a network of plastic pipes
- of microcomputer-goutteurs (several flows are available)
The capacity of the water tank is to be dimensioned according to the requirements out of water in your absence:
Volume of the tank = Frequency of watering X Flow of microcomputer-goutteur X Duration of watering X Number of microcomputer-goutteurs X Duration of your stay
Ideal: in interior if you do not wish to move your plants. The Councils: not to hesitate to place larger under-pots to even put covers pot for possible the too full one.
The system of watering connected to the tap
The system of watering is made up:
- of a programmer screwed with your water tap: the price varies proportionally with the possibilities offered
- of a pressure regulator to limit it to 1,5 bar
- of a network of plastic pipes of several diameters.
- y, t-piece, cross fittings
- supports of pipe · of microcomputer-goutteurs (several flows are available) · from microcomputer-aspergeurs more vary:
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- for plat band ......................... with 360º.
- stop valves to insulate by area your irrigation plant. This will enable you to intervene on an area of your garden by maintaining the watering of the other areas. To recommend to isolate the circuit dedicated to the flowers stand and pots during their period of wintering.
- Volumetric governors
To carry out your network without too much loss of pressure, start with the primary distributers made up by large pipes. It constitutes the spinal column of your network and guarantee a sufficient pressure in the most distant areas. Consequently, it must cross the whole of the areas which you wish to sprinkle.
To note, in the case of strongly distant areas, it is advisable to provide for a place served primary distributers by buried strengthened pipes. The reduction of pressure being carried out whereas with connection with the primary distributers.
Install then the district distributers made up by fine pipes, genuine local place served of your various plants.
Ideal: in outside, insofar as you consider it as solution of watering of your garden throughout the year.
The Councils: to install your programmer on a service valve to prevent any flood in the event of rupture of a pipe or if a connection releases inopportunely.
Failing this, to carry out a watering of your garden and your plants of interior before your departure, nature will make the remainder.
Philippe D.
And why not install a programmer with access by Internet, it is more flexible and easy with remotely even when you travel.
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