Keeping The Garden Watered While On Vacation! Pots, Beds & Baskets

Here is everything you need to know about watering your plants while on vacation. Here are all the ways you can keep your pots, hanging baskets and even garden watered while you are gone

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gardeners need to take vacations too so how do you ensure that your flowers stay watered or your plants in general stay watered despite the fact that you are sitting at the cabin sipping on a c one we’re going to start off with the most expensive and by most expensive I mean either pricewise or time setup wise and then we’re going to work our way down to like the cheapest hands down so let’s start with the most expansive and that is a water timer and they just kind of turn on your sprinklers but for me that’s not going to work because a lot of my gardeners my gardeners my gardeners are not hooked up just like robots walking around just kidding um my garden is vastly handw watered so that’s not going to work in my case and I feel like that’s probably like one of the logical solutions to this but who has that kind of time and money insert this so this is a gravity fed watering system and yes I know it’s intimidating but I’ve done a whole video on this so go check that out because I personally was also equally as intimidated As You Are by this because I’m so happily impressed with exactly what I’ve done in regards to the setup and the cost and stuff so this obviously will be rainwater now the downfall of using this for like a vacay option is that if it doesn’t rain your blants don’t get watered so not the best vacation option let’s get into what is the best vacation option if you’re new to the gate career you probably don’t know this yet but I give zero eonis about what my space looks like because I love my husband and my husband likes cars so my looks like this but what I’m about to show you is completely my fault not my husband’s and again I don’t care that is a kitty pool this Kitty pool is currently full of everything I use to start seeds with however that kitty pool when we go away is filled up and pots are placed inside I can take like little to no credit for that one because that is my mom’s genius idea what she used to use when we used to go on vacation for a week or two we would go to the lake and that is what she used so the key here is obviously that you fill that with water the second key is that you have pots that obviously have holes so hanging pots often times work because they’re like the the quar pots or the pots themselves have holes in them so drill some holes let capillary action in sence do its work and you will be so impressed and for a bonus put your fertilizer in there at the same time mix it around put the plants in and you’re you are made in the shade you may depending on how hot it is get a little neighbor kid um to come by and refill saided ponds or pools because things might get a little bit low my experience is that that’s never really happened and from what I’ve done recent and you know recent years last 10 years it’s never gotten hot enough for like 9 days for that to be like completely drained you will not have root rot you’ll be fine um as long as you take them out when you get home you’re not going to have a root rot in you know a week to 9 days try it I try it I promise you you’re going to love it okay so tip number whatever we’re on is this these here are plans that very obviously enjoy a buttload of sun buttloads of sun obviously dry things out so to ensure your high Heats and your butt loads of sun don’t cause issues move plants that normally are in full sun into the shade for the week that you’re gone if you do this combined with the kitty pool you’ll be shocked by how well it works out for you will your succulents make it in the shade for 9 days yes yes I will they’ll be just fine and that goes for all plants there’s not a single one where I’d be like no you can’t put it in the shade for a week it’ll die if you do now the next one is making like a DIY self-watering system so I did do a video on hanging baskets this one right here and I did a DIY watering system in it you could use a threaded end on one of the PVC pipes and then obviously thread in a 2 L Pot bottle which would water your plants and uh keep things pretty darn moist you can also get the wine bottle ones with the clay you can literally just shove a one bottle or a 2 L Pot bottle into your soil all these will work but keep in mind that they’re semi-limited in how much Spa like how much water that they hold so if you go this route I would heavily encourage you just to spend the money on the kitty pool method because that is going to be your best bet okay so the last one is your inrs um so these ones you can use like the watering Bol you could use the Ola trick you could try pot bottles but I would Hazard a guess unless you’re going through a heat wave these are going to be fine for a week and if anything that little bit of stress is going to help them out maybe help them set flowers set seed Etc and so forth so actually wouldn’t stress your inrs raised beds not getting watered for like a week to 9 days because it’s very likely that they’re going to be just fine again unless you’re going through a heat wve if you’re going through a heat wve you may want to consider getting someone into water or using like an Ola pot bottle type method the only thing you could do technically because this is in full sun this is Canadian full sun the full sun that doesn’t make gingers go extinct Sun however if anyone has any ideas on how us Canadians can get rid of our dinosaur Legacy aka the Cobra chicken please send them our Direction they are equally as angry as a red head but the ferocity of a t-rex with feathers so shade cloth is pretty darn cheap to purchase and you can get like 50% 30% whatever the case is your Tomatoes your peppers all these are going to be fine being shaded for like a week 99 days it’ll reduce your rates of evapo transpiration and you’ll be made in the shade so I hope you guys have a bunch of lovely vacations where your sunscreens um and send me your beach photo so I can live through you vicariously because we’re not really doing any trips other than our classic like one day is cuz my husband works for CP and anyone who works for CP now days off just really aren’t a thing I will talk to you Geeks later