‘Tea’ flowing through garden
Tea is the main warm drink of choice for many citizens of the world. For plants, tea made from worm castings is the fertilizer of choice. Making tea in a rain barrel from castings in painter’s bag is easy. What I needed in this home GP model garden is the way to easily distribute it. By using a four socket manifold and some sprinkler and soaker hoses I have solved this issue for my garden. There is an on/off switch at the bottom of the raised rain barrel, and four on/off switches on the 4 hose connectors. The rest is done by gravity and water pressure. I noticed when testing the system today that water pressure in the capped soaker hoses will move up and down in the spirals created on the right of the garden. Now all I need to fertilize most of my garden is keep the tea bags in the rain barrel fresh with castings and to turn the water on. Thus we now have a simple and affordable fertilizing system. In the picture on the side each color represents a hose coming from the manifold: red, green, purple and black. Soaker hoses are better to use. Since the end is capped there is nowhere for the water to go except thorough the porous sides of the hose. I have a system in front of the house for the flowers and bushes near the house. This hose is also connected to a rain barrel that will have a ‘tea’ bag in it. So rain from the sky falls on the house and garage into rain barrels and flows through porous bags of castings to make ‘tea’, then runs though soaker hoses to fertilize plants.
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