How to rig up a self watering unit to keep my 4x4 raised bed moist

Question

I AM AWAY FOR A week and no rain forcast any ideas   thank you

Bijous · Answer

Put a timer on a soaker hose. Timers have become pretty sophisticated and soaker hoses are the easiest to just lay down. Good luck.

Janet Pizaro · Answer

https://www.thespruce.com/watering-plants-while-on-vacation-1402425

Rob32328534 · Answer

Take empty soda jugs and put small holes around them, bury in your beds top opening up, then when you are ready to run away again :) , water the entire bed, fill the jugs, and mulch with landscape cloth, straw, or cardboard which is cut out around the plants. It should do fine while you are gone for about a week!

Dfm · Answer

I’ve used 1 gallon milk jugs for a modified drip system. The screw type cap work the best. You make a smaller hole near the bottom of the jug Let it leak. You control the rated by how tight the cap is screwed on. The other I’ve used is a soaker hose attatched to a watering timer, made loops around the base of the plants. Then there are actual irrigation kits, using a watering spike and hoses. Take your pick.

Nancy Turner · Answer

I agree with the soaker hose and timer. I have to go up two steeply chilled tiers to my garden and can't lug containers up their. I leave my soaker hoses hooked up all the time and all I have to do is turn the faucet on at the house to water. It definitely saves my back and garden. Now all I have to do in the garden is tend to it and not worry about watering it to keep it healthy.

Nancy Nichols Smith · Answer

You can get timers that are battery powered from any hardware or multi-purpose store (Target, Walmart, etc). Then run a regular hose to the side of your box garden, and attach to it a drip hose that you lay on the ground between the plant rows. I got one 8 feet long at the dollar store, and it makes 2 loops for a 4 x 4 bed. Set the system to turn on automatically at the same time everyday. Done and done!