Previously, watering fruit trees, especially adults, caused me difficulties. Just pouring water into a huge barrel circle is too much luxury. Sometimes I have an adult garden and remained the whole season not watered and was content with only atmospheric precipitation. The fruit harvest was appropriate.
At one time we bought drinking water in 5-liter plastic bottles. I didn’t throw them away, but put them in the country shed. One day I had an idea how to use these eggplants for the benefit of my garden.
Watering devices from 5-liter plastic bottles
It is very simple to make devices for watering trees. Here’s what I did with the five-liter bottles:
- With a sharp knife, I cut off the top of each bottle and cut out the bottom. Plastic cylinders turned out.
- Along the perimeter of the crown of adult fruit trees, I dug 5-6 holes at the same distance from each other.
- I placed a cylinder in them, sinking them almost completely. Above the surface of the earth , I left edges 3-4 cm high .
- At the bottom of the pits, I poured a small layer of broken bricks and expanded clay for drainage.
Now I water these holes by walking around the tree several times with a hose. Water does not spread over the surface of the earth, but goes deep into the soil directly to the roots.
Plastic cylinders for feeding
During the season, I put kitchen waste, mown grass, as well as spoiled vegetables and fruits into plastic cylinders, layering with a small layer of earth. This “good” rots and saturates the soil with organic compounds.
Mineral fertilizers in dissolved form are also poured into these cylinders. I cover each hole after watering with pieces of plywood or other improvised materials.
My trees have been transformed, they thank me with delicious and juicy fruits every year.
Additional watering of young seedlings
Bottles were also useful for young seedlings. Since our sandy soil dries up very quickly after watering, the trees constantly lacked moisture, and they developed extremely slowly. They had a particularly hard time in dry seasons with thirty-degree heat. You don’t get to the dacha much, I get there once a week and I don’t know what to grab for.
Now, when planting each new tree at a distance of 40-50 cm, I began to dig in 2-3 such 5-liter eggplants. But I don’t cut off the bottom or the top part from them.
- With a soldering iron, I make holes in the bottom and on the side of the bottle that looks at the seedling.
- So that the holes are not clogged, I wrap the eggplants with a piece of non-woven material in one layer or put them in sugar bags for 5 kg.
- Then I bury them in the ground, leaving only a neck with a lid on the surface.
In addition to watering the landing pit, I pour water into each bottle and tighten the lid. As the soil dries, the water gradually flows out of them, and the soil in the trunk circles remains wet for much longer. Thanks to this, the trees quickly adapt to a new place and already in the first season give a significant increase.
I take the eggplants out of the ground when the crown of the tree grows. The formed pits are filled with humus. Subsequently, I use plastic cylinders, the location of which I change as the tree grows.
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