Garden Watering

Garden watering used to be a pain. It involved traipsing backwards and forward to an outside tap, filling an unwieldy watering can that homed in on the knobbly parts of the leg like a cruise missile. Sweating through clouds of flies; missing bits, which died overnight; and, despite the most careful application of an even covering of water, creating small inland seas that drowned the roses. If a person went on holiday during the summer they had to pay a neighbours child to do the garden watering for them (which meant either coming home to a desert or a lake) and arrange someone to take care of the houseplants. All of which were over-watered and discovered on their return, dead in depressing green puddles on the window sill.
Fortunately, garden watering has gotten a lot easier. The introduction of sprinkler systems all but removed the piebald bog and dust-patch look from the lawn; and in recent years the ready availability of affordable irrigation systems has put paid even to the neighbours child. No longer will little Johnny ruin the planted home, inside or out: modern garden watering is done with kits and timers.
Basic garden watering kits (like Clabers DIY watering kits, simple timer kits and border watering kits) are relatively inexpensive and allow even the clumsiest gardener to ensure that his or her green spaces are fed efficiently. Garden watering kits operate by delivering water in controlled amounts (usually a drop at a time) to specified places. They can be timed to drip over any length cycle at any time of day or night (which means gardeners can go on holiday without fear), or manually operated.
Simple timers allow even the most mechanically inept to operate automated garden watering kits: the basic ones are like egg timers that reset themselves, with no confusing digital displays or functions to program. Technologically-savvy gardeners can buy electronic garden watering kits that are surprisingly easy to set up and manage. An electronic garden watering kit can be programmed to run endless numbers of day-, night- and season-driven routines, ensuring that the garden is fed correctly at all times of the year.
Indoor gardening benefits from the modern garden watering kit, too. Gardeners about to take their two weeks in Spain can relax in the knowledge that their timed indoor watering system is looking after the home front. Indoor garden watering kits like the Claber Oasis typically offer set programs that work according to numbers of days 10, 20, 30 or 40. The Oasis holds 25 litres of water, which it dispenses waste-free as drip irrigation for as many as 20 pots, for as many days as programmed.
Long gone, then, are strangers in the house, bruised knees and drowned plants. In the brave new world of the 21st century, garden watering is as easy as pressing a button.