On 13/04/2021 16:12, Mike Halmarack wrote:
As I may be going to live long enough to go on me holliers after all,
is there a method of watering my balcony plants in any way similar to
this?

A large plastic milk bottle full of water on my balcony floor, with a
tube from it going straight up the wall to plants on shelves.
Is it possible to apply anything like the right kind of pressure
without recourse to electricity and pumps?


I'll try to describe my setup. Put your plants in a pot, the pot sitting
in a shallow container. Rig up a full water bottle with a tube attached
to the lid. suspend/Hang the full water bottle at some height now upside
down with tube coming from the lid at the lowest point. Fix the other
end of the tube so the end is about 10mm or so from the base of the
shallow container. The water in the shallow container will gradually
fill from the bottle until the water level reaches the tube. It will
then stop as no air can get back to the water container. As the water
level in the shallow container drops, air will be allowed back up the
tube and realease more water. This will carry on over several days or
weeks until the water bottle is empty.