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Alex Taylor's avatar

I never see the method I use to reduce the need to water my pots, so just wondering if there is some reason why it is not recommend. I use plant spikes and bottles, both the screw-on plastic ones and the terracotta ones for wine bottles. I’ve now got enough glass bottles (blue, green and clear) for most of the garden, with extra plastic drinks bottles for fruit and veg. It seems to work very well for me, and kept all my plants alive for 10 days away last August!

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Angie Dawn's avatar

Good advice as always, Mark.

Regarding watering, I have an automatic watering system set up which is a godsend, but I only use it in the large pots (courgettes, bush tomatoes, celery, bush beans, etc.) I find that 5 mins every morning works well for me, and if it is very hot or windy I will sometimes give extra water later in the day. I don't use it for smaller pots because they just get flooded.

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