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Transcript: Homemade Irrigator
Hey, I’ve got a great tip for you on how to turn trash to treasure and make a simple drip irrigation device and fertilizer application device for your tomato plants or other plants in your garden.You just take an old milk jug or distilled water jug like this, and punch some holes in the bottom. Use a knife or an ice pick. Make small holes, three or four is usually enough in the bottom of the container, and then place a few rocks in the container. The reason for the rocks is it gives it some weight so it doesn’t blow away in the wind. Then set it right beside your plants.
Then you can take a liquid fertilizer or perhaps a dry fertilizer and just place a little bit inside the jug and then take your hose and add water to the jug and fill it up. It will slowly leak out, fertilizing your plants and providing a good soaking watering with about a gallon of water.
If you’ve ever tried to water with a hose, you know how water tries to run off the surface and it’s hard to really soak it in. This way, it slowly feeds your plant, you can put one beside each plant, and it’s a great way and a fast way to go through the garden and water and fertilize in one quick easy step.
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Last Updated:
July 6, 2006