I am always looking for ways that help me do more with less. If only I could have a few extra hours in my day to accomplish more. Can you relate?
As gardeners, we know that consistent watering is the key to a productive garden. Watering your garden can be a huge task, and eat up a lot of time.
Let’s face it – we all have busy schedules. Some days watering is just not a priority – your plants don’t get the water they need to produce food for you.
Enter drip irrigation – quick and simple to install, inexpensive, and gets the water to where it needs to go! This translates into lots of tasty, healthy veggies for my family to eat.
I’ve used drip irrigation in my garden for years. It’s a huge time and water saver. I’d be lost without it. As a general rule, if I can’t get water to it from my drip irrigation system, I don’t plant it. I know myself.
I have kids to get to school, loved ones I want to spend time with, a garden to maintain, videos to film, blog posts to write, dinner to make, the list goes on. Hand watering is just not something I enjoy or have time to do.
Since I am growing my fall garden Smart Pots containers, (click here to watch the “Growing Your Fall Garden” series) I knew I needed a drip irrigation system for my containers, and fast.
Enter DIG Corp. We teamed up with DIG Corp to install a drip irrigation for containers. You can read about that in this blog post.
The next, critical step was to automate my system. I need to be able to “set it and forget it”. Although it is a simple task to go outside, turn on my faucet to run the drip irrigation system for those Smart Pots, I know myself. I will forget. I won’t get to it. Or worse, I will turn it on, and forget to turn it off.
I knew a timer for my container drip irrigation system was critical to the garden; providing consistent watering (a must), giving me my time back all the while giving me peace of mind.
I installed a simple solar powered hose end timer to automate my drip irrigation system. It’s quick. It’s simple and inexpensive. Watch this video “How to Install a Timer to Automate your Drip Irrigation” on my YouTube channel to see how easy it is to install so that you can have your time back too!
Comment below and share how it has helped you. Has automating you garden watering given you some time back? Has it helped you spend more time with your kids, allowed you to go on vacation, or helped you grow more of your own food?
See you in the garden,
CaliKim
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Awesome Kim what a lovely update as always you keep me going and i try my best to put thinking’s into place but but it not that easy here in the UK at present but i keep trying to do my best in what I can do
Linda, I always appreciate seeing your comments, you always have something positive to say! I love how you are persevering even through challenges. Keep up the great work you are doing growing your own food.
i’m in Indonesia, its raining day.. almost everyday water fall from the sky and make a little damaged and decaying plants. but now I’m trying to make a simple little house for my plants, I hope my little crop plants can grow into beautiful plants that pretty soon
How amazing that you have the rain to help your garden grow! We don’t get much rain here in Southern California, so drip irrigation is a must. It sounds like you might be getting too much of a good thing – a shelter to protect your garden during big storms should help. Keep me posted on the progress of your garden, and thanks so much for stopping by to visit my blog!
I just completed planting five 15 gallon “Root Pouch” planting bags. They are very similar to Smart Bags, but came with handles and in a chocolate color fabric. I planted the following from seed in its own bag: carrots, beets and radishes. I planted 3 broccoli transplants in a bag and 3 brussels sprout transplants in the last bag. We are “off to the races” with our fall garden! I will be adding the drip irrigation hopefully next weekend.
Hello Nancy – I love growing in the Smart Pots and I am so glad that you are growing in containers as well. It’s a wonderful way to add growing space and be able to grow more of your own food. You will have a wonderful harvest from your grow bags and can always bring them indoors if it gets really cold where you live. The drip irrigation and timer have been a huge factor in the success of my garden and, now, my containers. I know you will love it too! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog – keep me posted!