How to organize watering your garden using plastic bottles

Description and technology of irrigation

Today there are a huge number of ways to water the garden. A high-quality crop harvested from the garden at the end of the season directly depends on the correct choice and efficiency of the irrigation device. But it is quite difficult to create a full-fledged irrigation system, since not always one method will fully satisfy the needs of all plants planted in the garden or garden.

Today, many gardeners choose the drip irrigation system. This method is suitable both for watering unpretentious plants and crops that are very capricious in terms of the water regime. Separately, it is worth noting that to create a full-fledged drip irrigation device, you will have to spend significant funds on the purchase of fittings, a special tap and other equipment elements. At the same time, many craftsmen advise using ordinary plastic bottles for a more economical solution to the problem of watering.

From plastic bottles, you can create a high-quality irrigation system and at the same time save significant money by avoiding the purchase of expensive items and equipment. Most of the system here can be replaced with plastic bottles. It is also worth noting that using such a homemade approach, you will not only save money, but you can also create a system for watering the entire site, and not a separate part of it. Moreover, even when you leave the cottage or garden for a couple of days, no one will steal your drip irrigation device. Bottles are a low-value "commodity".

Drip irrigation is a practical method of delivering water directly to the planting roots. Moreover, this method has a clear control, which allows you to achieve the greatest effect with minimal water costs, fertilizers and other resources introduced by the gardener into the soil.

This system consists of drip hoses or tapes and individual drippers. With the help of the latter, it is possible to control the amount of consumed water. Each dropper can pass a specific volume of water per unit of time. Most often, droppers are divided by volume into 2.4 and 8 liters of water per one hour of operation.

With such a simple organization of watering, any gardener can independently replace its elements with plastic bottles. Experts recommend using this type of irrigation device, in which the droppers will be directly built into the main plastic pipe. This will create a linear irrigation system.

The entire operation of the drip irrigation device, created from plastic bottles, is based on a dosed water regime for plant nutrition, in which water consumption is reduced during irrigation.

It should be noted that such a drip system has the following advantages:

• does not change the composition of the soil;
• prevents water starvation of plants in the garden;
• water supply is carried out constantly or, if necessary, in a small amount for each plant;
• watering is carried out with heated water, which heats up in the process of passing through the pipes;
• moistening the soil at a depth of one meter;
• the system can work in any conditions - in greenhouses, in open ground, etc.;
• the possibility of using a device for drip fertilization of plantings with liquid types of dressings;
• a convenient system for watering both plantings and fruit bushes with trees.

The created device can have a manual type of water supply to plantings (for private gardens) or an automated system using controllers (for large cultivated areas).

And to create such a design, plastic bottles are perfect. But if everyone understands the principle of operation of such a device, then not every gardener will be able to make a full-fledged and perfectly working drip irrigation system from plastic bottles with his own hands.

Today there are several ways - simple and complex - to create drip irrigation from plastic bottles. We will give below the simplest, available methods of collecting an irrigation device, which are easy to implement with your own hands in any garden plot.

Video "Drip irrigation with your own hands"

This video presents do-it-yourself drip irrigation from a bottle and a dropper.

Method number 1

The first method has one clear advantage - there will be no need to bury the system elements in reservoirs with water under the ground. To create an irrigation system from plastic bottles, you will need:

• pressed foam rubber;
• bottle with a volume of 1.5-2 liters.

So, when assembling, you should be guided by the following assembly instructions:

• water is collected in the container;
• the lid, with the help of which the bottle is closed, is replaced with a piece of foam rubber;
• we place the bottle as close as possible to the root system.

Note. The reservoir, which is played by the plastic container, should not be completely filled with water. This is done so that a small amount of air remains in the container.

Such a prepared container must be placed throughout the garden. As a result, plants will be watered almost automatically. It will be necessary to periodically simply fill the reservoirs with water, replenishing its losses.

Method number 2

The second method will be implemented somewhat more complicated than the previous one. But making such a system will also be quite simple. In this situation, you will need scissors or a knife and the actual plastic bottles.

To create drip irrigation, you will need to do the following:

• take a bottle and cut off the bottom of it. In this case, the bottom itself can not be completely separated, since in the future it can be used as a lid. This will protect the water in the improvised reservoir from soil contamination;
• then tighten the cap on the neck tightly;
• after that, in the bottle itself, it is necessary to make several holes with a small diameter. The number of holes depends on the type of soil - for sandy soils, two holes will be enough, for loams - at least four;
• we bury the resulting container between plantings to a depth of about 15 cm.You need to bury it with the neck down;
• after that, it remains only to fill the homemade reservoir with water and periodically add it as the site is irrigated.

As you can see, this method of assembling the irrigation system is quite simple.

Method number 3

This is a more complex way of organizing garden irrigation using plastic bottles. The set of tools and materials here is the same as in the previous method, and the system is assembled as follows:

• make a hole in the lid that closes the container;
• we build a support for the bottles. The tanks can be suspended above the ground with ropes;
• you need to hang with the neck down;
• we collect water in the bottles.

As a result, we will get an above-soil method of irrigating plants. Some gardeners prefer to hang the tanks upside down.But then not in the lid, but, accordingly, in the bottom it is worth making holes.

For this irrigation method, it will be necessary to calculate the number of water droplets falling into the soil for a specific unit of time. The quality of irrigation will directly depend on this parameter. Therefore, at the very beginning, small holes in diameter should be made so that in the future it will be possible to expand them.

Using any of the above methods of drip irrigation of plants, you can make a high-quality irrigation system for your garden.

Video "Homemade drip irrigation"

To organize homemade drip irrigation, you need - a bottle, a carnation, a hammer, tape or wire, water.