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MrsFoxglove · 2018-07-13 17:30:09

Right long story short... i'm going on holiday for a week and there's no one around that can water the garden for me :/ I don't have an outside tape to set up any kind of irrigation system for my pots so my question is... Will this work? I have lined deep boxes with polystyrene and a bin liner and filled it with water to…

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The_herpetologist Posts: 481

July 2018

Mix some clay pebbles into the soil (eg Canna Aquaclay) and give the pots a good soak. You can buy clay pebbles online for about £5 per kilo. Vermiculite does a similar job, but nowhere near as effectively.

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