Hanging Basket Irrigation - specialised pipe system or Hep2O?

[Squirrel Nibbler]

Would you use 10mm plastic plumbing pipe for automatic watering of hanging baskets or would you buy pipe and fittings specially for the purpose?

TIA

Adrian

[Mungo]

Hmmm... probably buy the specialised fittings because some national company has researched this area and has created a kit of bits. Having said that, you can buy a "dribble" pipe and fittings from B&Q that may do the trick.

Having acquired a consumer-unit timer module (some electrician said that it was faulty - the presumption is that it isn't faulty but the ageing electrician took the easy option to replace it) I have great plans to hook this up via a washing machine solenoid and our mains water supply to provide automatic hanging-basket watering for some minutes overnight.

I'll wait until I get the new en-suite finished first...

Mungo :-)

[Bookworm]

Beware! I fitted an automatic watering kit for my baskets a couple of years ago. Worked fine. Only trouble was it watered the baskets whether they needed watering or not. I found out that the baskets were looking finished well before their time. Went back to manual watering. Pain in the arse but baskets look brighter for longer.