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Big drippa irrigation

Started by Ricado, February 19, 2006, 20:28:00

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figrat

Quote from: Ricado on February 19, 2006, 20:28:00
Has anyone used this system ?  It is the one with a 2 gallon bag and 6 nozzles.  I want to use it on tomatoes in pots outdoors.  Its £10 for a kit, so 2 or 3 would be adequate.  I wondered how well they work and if yields are any better.

I thought of using growpots, but they are expensive and i dont like growbags.

I used one of these last year, for 3 tomato plants (can't remember varieties but all cropped well). These were grown in ring culture pots which were sunk into a growbag and grown against a south facing wall next to a greenhouse with water butt. Each plant had 2 nozzles inserted into the growbag, I had to fill the container every day -sometimes twice on really hot days- and had some irritations with the nozzles blocking, but it wasn't a real problem - just check that the water is flowing after each top up. I fed the plants via a watering can into the ring culture pots.
Also grew tomatoes and courgettes in ring culture pots sunk into the ground, each pot filled with grow bag compost, used water bottle funnels to water them. Ground crops did best, but am going to stick with ring culture pot system in both, but try aubergines and peppers in the grow bag and will definitely use the drippa system again - interested to read about larger containers from camping shops. - in

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