How to water plants high up and at other heights around the garden

Figuring out how to water hanging baskets up high can be challenging, especially if your garden has plants of varying heights. Different heights create depth, colour, and varied interest throughout the space. You may choose to do this with bedding plants which grow at different heights. Or, alternatively, by growing your plants at different heights to begin with. This could mean anything from growing in borders, raised beds, window boxes, or even hanging baskets.

Keeping your plants healthy and hydrated is essential no matter the height they are growing. And plants growing in containers are even more reliant on us, as custodians of their care, particularly when it comes to watering. But did you know that Irrigatia’s automatic irrigation kits can water your plants at different heights?

Read on to learn more about how this works in my blog.

Finding a method of watering your garden beds and borders that works for you is key when growing a garden. But you can take the worry out of ensuring your plants have the ideal amount of hydration by installing an Irrigatia kit. Using the sun as a guide and power source, their SOL kits draw water from a reservoir to automatically care for your garden.

With beds and borders being ground level, gravity does much of the work in ensuring the water gets from your reservoir to your plants. However, there are a few different watering methods suggested by Irrigatia to provide the right amount and dispersal of water.

Seep hoses are otherwise known as ‘leaky hoses’. They allow water to seep through porous material into the soil, which ensures there is constant moisture available. Particularly well suited to garden beds and borders due to their size. This method of watering is ideal for young plants, vegetable patches, flower beds, and even trees.

You can adjust this to suit the size of your bed, and which Irrigatia kit you have. The SOL-C12 and SOL-C24 are capable of maintaining up to 6 metres of seep hose, to ensure consistent water pressure. You can even adjust these seephoses to be shaped into circles, to provide water all around individual plants, particularly larger ones. A seep hose can distribute water up to a third of a metre outside of the hose itself. This provides plenty of water for nearby plants.

The Irrigatia flat hose is another alternative to drippers. You can snake around your garden beds and borders to provide a consistent and even water distribution into the soil. It works by soaking the external cover, which then gradually releases water across its length. Best used on beds and borders, the hoses need to be laid flat, without any rises or bumps to ensure the water is evenly distributed. Therefore, this performs most successfully at lower heights, with less pressure.

The Irrigatia SOL kits are designed to be able to pump water across distances, and this includes certain heights too. Each Irrigatia SOL kit can distribute water to plants up to 5 metres above the water source. That’s almost the height of a giraffe!

By doing so, plants growing in hanging baskets and window boxes, even a floor above your water source, are automatically cared for. Be aware if your Irrigatia SOL kit is also watering plants at ground level. There can be no more than a 2-metre height difference between the highest and lowest drippers. This is just to make sure that the water is evenly distributed between the two. But with a 2-metre height difference, you can comfortably water your wonderfully decorative hanging baskets and a garden bed with no trouble.

The best distribution method for plants at height is using the drippers that the kit already comes with. Because containers tend to be smaller, they aren’t suitable for seep hoses, and the flat hose works best at lower heights. The drippers are well-suited to this. You can use the stakes to guarantee the water will be directed to the base of the plant. Plus, they won’t be dislodged by inclement weather.

Watering all of the plants in your garden, regardless of height, can be easily done with Irrigatia’s products, both the irrigation kits and their distribution kits. By easily designing your garden’s irrigation plan, your precious and lovingly grown plants will all be well cared for.

If you have a question about how to water plants high up, or anything else, contact Irrigatia for assistance. Also, make sure to check out their blog and other how-to guides for more gardening insights.