So you are off on a
weekend break. You can take your dog with you, but what about your precious
potted plants? It is heartbreaking to come back & find your roses dead and
your crotons withering.
How can you ensure
that potted plants get watered even during those days when nobody is at house?
Well, help is at
hand. Mr. S.S. Radhakrishnan, Founder and President of Good Governance
Guards.
Ingenious Drip
Irrigating..!
A passionate gardener
& an avid promoter of urban farming, has fashioned an ingenious drip
irrigating contraption from that most commonplace & ubiquitous of objects,
a plastic bottle. It is an idea that anybody can easily set up over their
potted plant in a few minutes.
All it takes is a
used plastic bottle, a small stone and a string of cotton stitching thread.
Double up the thread & tie one end of it around the stone.
Fill the bottle with
water up to its neck. Now place the stone end of the thread at the bottom of
the bottle, like an anchor, and lead the other end of the thread out of the
bottle, leaving two to three inches of thread hanging over the soil in the pot.
The bottle is kept
tilted at an angle of 45 degrees using whatever support you can find around
you; or you might use the bendable and yet sturdy 3 mm gauze metal wire that is
available at hardware shops, to make a prop for the bottle. If you have many
potted plants, you might prop up the bottle such that the bottle placed in one
pot leans over the next one. Keep the bottle uncapped.
Now, watch closely.
You will find a tiny bead of water moving along the thread (by spontaneous
capillary action) and drop from the free end of the string into the soil.
Water will continue
to drip until the level of water is same at both ends of the thread, meaning
that as long as there is water in the bottle, the irrigation will continue.
Mr. Radhakrishnan,
said, “You can actually set the speed of
the process. For a faster flow, use a thicker thread. Ideally, adjust the
thread width to allow water to drop at the rate of one drop per 30 seconds,
which means that one litre of water in the bottle can be enough to irrigate a
potted plant for 2 or 3 days”.
So, there you are.
You can get away and yet be sure that your plants would not miss you too much.
About...Good
Governance Guards Association..!
At the initiative of
the trust an Association has been formed in the name and style of "Good
Governance Guards Association" and the following are the office bearers:
PRESIDENT
– Mr. S.S. Radhakrishnan ( Cell: 98410-23448)
SECRETARY
– Mr. C.P. Vikas ( Cell: 98410-99898)
TREASURER
– Mr. N. Nageswaran (Cell: 98400-48174)
Contact:
17, 1st Cross Street,
Customs Colony, 4th Avenue,
Besant Nagar, Chennai
– 600 090.
Tel: 91 - 44 - 2491
7821 Fax: 91- 44 - 2446 3670
Cell: +91 98410
23448, 98412 88676
Web site:
http://www.goodgovernanceguards.com
E-mail:reachus@goodgovernanceguards.com
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