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Watering hanging baskets
doganduck
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2 x18" baskets, abt 7 foot high - on the street, no hose pipe, and really don't want to use ladder and watering can. Can anyone recommend solution to daily watering. I put in an upside down plastic bottle, so just need to fill that?? Help appreciated
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You can buy hanging basket watering gizmos at good garden centres and DIY stores. Failing that, stand on a chair or find a tall friend.
You can use a water bottle upside down in the basket or get an extension arm for a hose.
Run a tube from an upstairs window.
This is front of Elizabethan house on steep hill, with employee tasked to water. So obelixx...I can only find fine sprayers on pump bottles. Health and safety issues for chair idea, and tall people I know aren't available on a daily basis!
Dave....hose don't reach, I've put upside down empty bottle in ready to fill...
And Ceres, the Elizabethan overhand and non-opening windows means that won't work.
But thank you all.....I'll trawl internet for a little while longer. Can't use a pulley either, too many vandals......ho hum.
How about as garden sprayer, the pump action ones, comes with bit of hose
Beat me to it ice
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yup, think that might be it if the fine spray can be turned down to a single stream....but a bit time consuming for staff. Pray for rain might work.....
Sadly rain, even heavy rain, doesn't water hanging baskets properly as the leaves shed it. The council get laughed at for sending people out to water the baskets in the rain, but if they don't the baskets soon look poorly.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
my tongue was in cheek, and anyroadup we don't need a wet summer........thanks all...
I used to water plants on a railway station. They let me jump across lines with hose but health and safety stopped that (I had permission) we then used the pump spray. Think we removed the nozzle though so just the pipe. Was a while back, poor things are now just suffering