Plants at your holiday

Absent from home for some time, leaving flowers and even animals had probably everyone. During his absence we are experiencing for their pets - how are they unattended. Anyone looking for a way out of the situation, depending on the timing of trips or vacations. Someone left the keys to the apartment a neighbor or relative, with instructions to pour in time, but many do not have such an opportunity or simply do not trust in such a sensitive issue not an experienced person. |

More and more, devising ways of automatic sprinkler system, a large flower shop can even buy special devices and entire systems to ensure the plants with water. Many fans of indoor plants, which must often leave the house for a few days, radically solve the problem - moving to the cultivation of hydroponics, which greatly simplifies the task (but does not prevent the problems of care in general).

If we talk about the plants planted in soil that is several ways to ensure the plants water:

The method first - Plants watered abundantly, so that the earth whom fully saturated with water. If clay pots, each pot is desirable to wrap the moss, which is also thoroughly moistened. You can also put a clay pot in a plastic, larger, and the space between the walls of the pot to fill moistened and expanded clay. Plastic pots from the top soil is covered by wet moss or expanded clay. Watered the plants are put on pallets or in large pots with water, without blyudechek, so that the bottom of the pot was in the water. Plants that are categorically not stand when "the feet in the water" - leave on a platter, and stekshuyu after irrigation water is drained. This method is effective if plants are left for 7-10 days and if the plants are many.

The second method - can be used if the plants are not a lot, and if the plants are very sensitive to excessive moisture (such as soil and air). The plant is watered, so that the earth whom waterlogged. Take the plastic bottle with water and a thin knitting needles (or vice versa thick needle, and can be an awl), heated on the fire in the plug a hole, then cut a hole needs to be done and at the bottom of the bottle. Bottle pour into the pot with the plant necked down to a depth of 2-3 cm water, emerging dropwise moistens the soil. There is a very important point - need to be trained in advance on the bottles in the size of holes. It could happen that the water will flow too slowly, too rapidly or vice versa. The best way for some time before leaving to try this method on a pot without plants, filled with dry earth. Looking for several days as the soil is filled with moisture, you determine for yourself - a suitable hole in the bottle or have to change it. When you are able to optimum "set the bottle" - the problem of watering during your absence will be solved once and for all. The duration of such irrigation depends on the size of the bottle.

Third Way - Out of the bandage or strips of fabric twisted wick one end placed on the surface of the earth in the pot and the other goes into the container in the water, which should be located above the knee. There should provide a certain amount of wick size pot. So for the pot diameter 10 cm is enough of a wick, and the pot diameter of 25-30 cm will need 3.4 to wick an adequate supply of water. This method is effective if plants are left for 7-10 days.

Method fourth - If your plants are grown in pots with good drainage holes in the bottoms, you'll like, and this way. On the table is spread oil cloth (so as not to spoil the furniture), it - a wide strip of any thick woolen cloth (cloth, felt, old children's blanket, folded in several layers of batting, etc.), pre soaked in water. At the tissue is placed already poured pots of plants (naturally without blyudechek). End of tissue should hang from the table and dropped into a large bowl of water, as set slightly below the table with the plants. Fabric to be kept moist and the plants receive water through the pot drainage holes. This method is effective if plants are left for 10-20 days.

Method fifth - If you are not going away for 7-10 days and 3-4 weeks, but more than once a year, it is advisable to purchase an automatic sprinkler system. They are now sold in every major city and constitute a water tank, a set of thin tubes and program management, ensuring the inclusion of water supply at regular intervals, eg, 2 times a day.