Time out?

[gojiberry]

I am going away for two weeks mid May. We don't usually go till mid Sept and every thing usually takes pot luck. But I will have to sort something as it is the start of the growing season and I can't afford to loose everything. My other problem is that I have three big greenhouses and they take ages to water.I will be rigging up everythig Ican think of to get the plants waterfor those two weeks.

Ian

[jojo2910]

Last year we went on honeymoon in May and we asked two sets of friends to look after the garden, but despite their best efforts we still lost about a third of everything. This year we are not taking any chances and will be holidaying later in the year when the main growing and harvesting seasons are over.

[chengjing]

Irrigation system

Our plot is on a hill side. We put our shed on the top of the plot and green house at the bottom. Last year hubby found a couple of recycled tanks so he put one of them next to the shed to collect water and put a tag on it to get water to the greenhouse. In the greenhouse he used a timer and some irrigation drips to water plants. It worked really well. When tank is full it will supply water for about 7 days in dry summer. We went away for a couple of weeks in the summer, without problem. See pics.