{"id":662,"date":"2010-07-23T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/07\/frugal-watering-system.html"},"modified":"2019-06-28T13:57:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:57:55","slug":"frugal-watering-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/07\/frugal-watering-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Watering System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>A friend went away for a week and asked me to water her newly planted trees and the Butterfly bush I gave her as a welcome to the neighborhood present. She&#8217;s also got some adorable planters on her porch filled with purple and white petunias and zinnias, and they&#8217;d bake to death in this 100+ degree heat.\u00a0 So John and I went to her house last night to water everything.\u00a0 Before she left she told me she&#8217;d left containers of water near her plants but I didn&#8217;t understand what she meant. After seeing them in action last night, I love this idea for a frugal watering system. I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t run across it yet but there you have it; old gardening gals can learn new tricks.<\/p>\n<p>What she did was take milk and water jugs (about 1 gallon) and clean them thoroughly. She made tiny pinholes in the bottom of them, filled them with water, and placed them near the trees. Most were nearly empty when we got there, but when John picked one up we could see that the soil underneath was wet and moist. It was like a frugal drip irrigation system!\u00a0 We refilled all the containers and I checked them this morning. Sure enough, they&#8217;re slow watering the plants.<\/p>\n<p>We are back to baking temperatures today with no rain in the forecast. I&#8217;ve asked the family to save containers for me. I&#8217;m going to put these near the shrubs Patty gave me so that I can keep the Rose of Sharon alive. The hose also doesn&#8217;t reach the rose garden; one of my Sophia roses is, alas, dead I fear, but the other struggles valiantly to survive.\u00a0 The Blaze roses are showing signs of heat distress and the minis aren&#8217;t looking happy either.\u00a0 This new frugal drip irrigation system might just work!<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else use it? Tried it? Let us know!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend went away for a week and asked me to water her newly planted trees and the Butterfly bush I gave her as a welcome to the neighborhood present. 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