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My mom did something similar to this, but she used one of those great big tin cans that you get when you buy in bulk. She used that kitchen tool that cuts a triangle shape into cans to puncture the bottom sides, then she burried it next to the plant. Then she would use the hose to fill it up and it would slowly disperse the water.
When we planted a long row of bushes in front of our home, we dug holes in the ground beside each plant, buried a large clean plastic soda pop bottle leaving only the top exposed. We also put small holes in the bottom of the bottles. We would fill up the bottle with water by inserting the water hose in the top opening. Those shrubs grew large very fast! This was in rocky clay soil.
Just learned this year from another article about this technique. I like things to be simple and it don’t get much simpler than this! It’s a game changer for my garden this year. It’s not really any more labor intensive than dragging out the hose, dragging it around the yard. Both front and back. Spraying down everything that’s green and growing and hoping for the best that it reaches the roots before the 100 degree and more sucks it off the top. I’m a believer and already shared the word along with empty bottles to folks I know. After last year’s garden disaster, I’m fighting for a better year. And, boy! This has been a banner year!!😊
Use a 5 gallon bucket found at a bakery. Wash thorough, drill a 1/16th hole in the bottom near the edge, Place brick or rock in bottom, place the empty bucket near your plant with the hole close as possible and then fill with water. 5 gallons of water will seep over a 2 or 3 day period onto the ground.
Instead of making a hole at the bottom, fill the can with water, make a couple of small holes in the lid and close it tight. Bury a quarter of the can with the lid in the soil next to the plant. Gravity will do the rest. Water will drip to the roots slowly over a few days and even longer, depending on the size of the can.
I have been doing this for a few years with large pop or soft drink bottles (as I don’t get the milk ones) or sandwich bags with the ‘press together’ seals. I use a sewing needle, just the very tip to make one hole near each corner of the bags (through just one layer of plastic) half fill with water, expel the air as best as you can before pressing the closures together. Hold the bag up and you are looking for a slow drip coming from each corner. Do this some days before you go away to give yourself an idea of performance. You can use different size bags in pots and use sticks to prevent them rolling out of the pot if necessary. You can reuse the bags next year to save time and waste. The pop bottles I found difficult to regulate the flow from with some emptying very quickly as it is difficult to control how far in the pin goes, thus varying the hole size, however, I had some success with using the cap on top to vary the available air flow through the bottle, adjusting the cap to slow the flow, but sometimes it seemed to work well only come come to a standstill a few hours later. I’m still working on this, but had some success, saving my plants when I went away in some vert hot weather.
My mom used to bury milk jugs in her garden, but they always seemed to empty super quickly. Seeing how many hole you poked, i wonder if there weren’t too many… I can’t garden outside, but regularly forget to water my plants… especially when i get sick. This might be a solid idea. I was going to try peas over the winter here.
heh, it’s nice to see someone else tackling this challenge. I’m currently working on a similar system focused on controlled release, but I’ve found that as the release rate decreases, the complexity of managing the variables increases significantly. My main issue is optimizing the flow rate to be proportional to the pressure differential, which is governed by: flow rate = ΔP ressure differential / R esistance I initially considered implementing a small float valve for regulation, but I also have to account for the material properties within the container (springs, or anything that might rust). For example, I’ve been using 20-pound Tidy Cats containers, which can provide a few days of controlled flow using a makeshift pressure adjustment setup with a shoelace and a nylon screw. However, to extend the duration to 1-2 weeks, I found that standard water filters with a 5-20 micron pore size achieve the necessary porosity. The principle behind this setup is that as the water level drops, the system self-compensates by decreasing internal pressure, which helps maintain a relatively consistent flow rate.
OMG. I love you. So the biggest challenge to drip irrigation is running water to the beds, keeping the faucet on all day with timer, etc. The effort seems too much and I’m too chicken to start. Now I realize all I need to do is put drip irrigation lite, per bed. Whether it’s jugs or cheap bucket, put a water tank at one corner. Fill up enough water for a day or two or three, run drip irrigation, practice installing, get comfortable with setup and fill up tanks when they run low. Once comfortable, can expand to actual hose, but this way I can get into it slowly, drip by drip. Thank you!
Excellent. So instead of watering the plant you’re filling the jugs. If that’s right then you can use smaller jugs too for smaller containers where a gallon jug wouldn’t fit. (I have a lot of dwarf plants in 2.5 gallon buckets or else in gallon pots when they’re not yet in their final home.) Also, do you just put the one hole? Please definitely do a more detailed article as you noted on one of the comments.
I have been racking my brain trying to figure out how to do the irrigation system for my nonprofit. Funds are limited because we’re just starting out. I thought that the terracotta pot method would be my saving grace until I realized how much that would cost… So my next question is, how many holes should be poked? One or several? How do you prevent algae from growing? Do you paint them? Or does the constant water flow prevent that from being a problem?
Use terracotta pots sealed at the bottom with a caulking sealant (works similar to ollas) ; dig holes big enough to accommodate them. The plant’s roots naturally surround the water source and only sucks as much water as it needs. I use this trick in summer and fill them up with auto drip irrigation once a few days and they make the plants grow very healthy and easy. Bigger holes and bigger pots would allow more days before needing to be refilled.
I appreciate this advice, because I definitely need some help with watering in the high desert AZ sun, and was pleasantly surprised to see Millennial Gardener when I clicked on this one! I was 50/50 about clicking this actually without seeing your face. Sometimes you can’t always trust all the gardening “fast tips and tricks” on YouTube. 😅
Do you leave the lids on? I was thinking if the lids were kept on they would be less likely to let the water out in the night when they cool and then would water in the morning when the sun came up and the water begin to expand. What do you think of this idea. Thanks for all your good articles. I watch everyone I find I’m in Washington State
In april we went on a trip to California and left tomatoes on drip irrigation – we have 15 min every other day. When we returned tomato plants were weak looking with yellow leaves. I googled it – they were overwatered. If u put 3 gallon jug to water all the time your plants will be overwatered. Maybe it is suitable for grown up trees, but nothing else
Drip irrigation tape or soaker hose for interior polytunnels green houses keeps the humidity down there for reducing the heat. Outdoors the simplest way is the sprinkler system except of course for tomatoes. It’s really important to keep all the soil wet enough to maintain the ecology of the soil as soil ecology is interconnected with microbial and michorizal filaments in the soil. In the uk it’s best to not over water to deter slugs and snails. Using the Geoffrey Dowding “no dig” method mitigates those pests.
There’s another idea. Bury the jugs up to the neck in the ground and place several pin holes about two inches down from the top of the jug Fill the jug and replace the lid …..The Water will leak out of the holes, and then once the water level gets below the holes, it will evaporate out when the soil dries up to re-moisten the soil Also, the plant will eventually send roots into the jug .. This way the water lasts significantly longer. Sometimes weeks it’s a good method for using for newly planted tree saplings.😊
I have a few tomato plants at work and forgot to water them this past Friday. Last time I watered was Thursday evening. It’s been 94° the past few days and I’m afraid they’re dried out. I’ll be doing this every Friday just before leaving. Has anyone ever used a 2 liter bottle with a hole drilled in the lid and flipped it upside down into the dirt? Does it work like one of those watering globes?
I’d be careful using milk jugs. I used them for a season and by the end they were so brittle I couldn’t pick them up unless I used a shovel. If I tried a handle the jug would disintegrate and leave many many small pieces of plastic in the garden. Maybe if they are painted or somehow protected from sunlight they would work otherwise I’d steer clear for a long term solution.
The premise is completely wrong- drip setup is intimidating for some but not that expensive and I’d rather run drip than have a bunch of unsightly plastic jugs blowing around. We live where it rarely rains during summer and I use the jug method temporarily to help get native plant transplants established.
doesnt the heat from the sun baking any jugs cause the jug to erupt from pressure? id assume you could pop a hole in the top lid to make a waterfall system with no suction. also wouldnt heat cause super hot water to get onto plant roots which might not be prefered over cold water? I guess you could rig it up to have foil wrapped on them? sounds goofy as hell tho lmao btw why is this dude using a thread cutter to poke a hole lol so random
this didnt age well. plastic milk/water jugs are NOT recommended for re-use. they break down in sunlight and heat, and you will be contaminating your food garden with micro and nanoplastics for you to consume. not good. you might be able to diamond drill glass jugs for this purpose. avoid plastic of any kind in your garden.