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

Squirrel Nibbler wrote:

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


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 :-)

Mungo wrote:

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 :-)

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.