would you like to add irrigation to your hanging baskets
stay tuned as we show you how easy it is to do it
hello friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny and today we are going to show you
how easy it is to add irrigation to your hanging baskets i know personally i struggled
for several many years rather on keeping my hanging baskets well watered throughout the
entire growing season it was a real problem for me especially when i had these big huge beautiful
petunia hanging baskets because it seems like here when you get into july and august you just
cannot keep these baskets watered enough i tell people one of the greatest things that jerry did
for me was to install this drip irrigation on our hanging baskets our house across the front
has four beautiful hanging baskets and what's the beautiful thing about these this irrigation system
is that you can't even tell that they're on drip irrigation it's super simple to do and
we're going to show you exactly how to do it so come on and let's go see how easy it is
here we are right off of our front porch this is in the bed that has the tea olives and the
the hortsman it gives you an idea of where we are now again this is super simple to do guys um
we're going to start right here on this wall is where all the irrigation piping is kind of hidden
we went with because our color of our house is the trim is white jerry went ahead and chose
a white irrigation pipe this is half inch tubing it's a solid tubing um that we're going to kind
of work in reverse okay so this part goes up to the top of the house there's an elbow and then
it goes across to the front porch but let's go back in reverse right so the tubing comes
down the white we have a pressure regulator on here because we only have four drippers on this
system we don't want it to really just shoot out so we do have a pressure regulator on here
and then the black tubing you will see that is a filter just to kind of help clean out any kind of
gunk that may be in there so the pressure regulator and the filter are kind of one of
those key little components that you want to have on your hanging basket irrigation system and then
down there at the bottom it's just a green that's like a 10 foot 10 foot long standard hose that you
can get you know at your local big box store so we have it hidden actually it's not buried it's
just underneath the mulch that wraps around and then it comes right over here to the um the spigot
the hose pipe if you're in the south you call it a hose pipe or spigot the water faucet right so
here we have just the regular water faucet this is the green hose that's coming up now on here is our
hopefully we're not going to get a summer thunderstorm real quick this is a fantastic
battery operated timer um you can get it from you know your different landscape supply stores your
big box stores we're gonna link all of these things um down in the video description below
so if you'll just hit the little button the little down button the whole video description
will come down and we will have links for this we love this timer because like i said it's
operated on batteries you can have up to four different settings you can choose which day
of the week you want it how often how long super user friendly so your spigot is turned
on it goes to the timer so when the timer clicks on it will allow the water to go through
goes all the way through comes back up we do have if you're wondering what this black pipe
is right here we did have some of our baskets um not baskets pots containers on the front
porch on drip irrigation but now that we have aqua pots we don't need it so this has been
disconnected so our white half inch pipe goes up this wall and then it will hit a t and then it
rides along the length lip of inside of our porch so let's go hop on the porch and go look at that
the beautiful thing about this irrigation system is that when jerry was able to install it you can
tuck it up on the eaves inside lip of your front porch so that way it basically disappears now
what i have in my hand is obviously not the exact same irrigation line that we have up on the porch
again our porch ceilings are white this is a brown tube but it's the exact same tubing that we have
but it's just a different color so whatever color your house is obviously you're going to want to
choose maybe you want a darker one maybe you want a lighter one we you can even paint this so that
it truly just kind of blends in to your house so you're going to run this along the inside
of your porch so that it basically disappears i was even talking to a customer this weekend
and so she ran hers through her gutter like inside her gutter because that made sense
at her house and so that's how it disappeared and then she was able to get the drip tubing
to go through into her she had hay racks again it's completely customizable so do
what makes sense at your house so we're using again a half inch tubing and then what's so
great is this is a a little basically it's a hole punch right so it's this little handy dandy tool
that we have used gosh this same one for years so when you are moving it let's see if we can
show you that right it's a punch so basically it's like a hole punch for the tubing so what
you'll do is you'll take your tubing that you want the hole turn it this way so it makes sense
okay and it goes down see it's down there into the the lip and then you just squeeze and when
you squeeze and you come out you have the little dibble so you have your hole that you're then
then you're able to take your emitter so the emitter is what allows the water to
come out and it had they have different flow rates so this one that we have is a half inch
per half gallon per hour half inch half gallon so of course it has the little pokey end so we tape
that little pokey end it's a very technical term there you know and you really gotta
so then you just take it and you push it in really nicely so there we go okay
so you have your emitter in your pipe now this little white tubing again is a nice it's a
hollow tubing this is what your water is going to flow down to great thing again how long are
your hanging baskets so you can just cut this to length and then here at the very end this is not
necessarily the water does come through here but it's not at the tip it is actually at the top this
is a weight so if you happen to have some late summer night winds like we're having right now
this is what holds the irrigation line into your hanging basket so it just doesn't
flow out of there and then at the end of your line it's really simple all you have to do in order to
stop the water flow is just bend that pipe back and you can get couplings that will fit on there
or if you want to do it like what i did down there you can get some like electrical tape and
just tape it closed this will keep the water from obviously shooting out on your on your porch and
then all the water goes out through the drippers of your hanging basket and then all you have to do
is just tuck that dripper into your hanging basket and we've only had just a couple of instances when
we've had those big summer thunderstorms where the baskets are moving they sometimes will get
moved and sometimes come out but for the most part they stay exactly where they are supposed to be as
far as how much do i water mine in the beginning of the season i will water them maybe once a day
maybe every couple of days but remember we get a lot of shade here and then we get afternoon sun so
again you're gonna have to kind of be a student of your garden to figure out how often you will need
to be watering your containers right now that we are coming into august i am watering these twice a
day once in the early early morning and then again in the late afternoon because remember as the
season progresses your plants get bigger you have more roots less available soil that can hold onto
that moisture and of course our temperatures are a lot higher so you're probably going to need to
to water more frequently as the season progresses but again this is really easy to do
you just once you get an idea of exactly where you want this tubing to go um you can then just drip
put your drippers in there your emitters in there to your hanging baskets or your hay racks whatever
the case may be now the way that jerry attached this to the side of our porch was simply with just
some little metal brackets that he then screwed into the porch so that it holds it up there
and then you might be saying well jenny i don't want in the wintertime you know to have you know
four drippers hanging down when there's no hanging baskets there because obviously our hanging
baskets are our summer spring summer fall interest and then in the winter of time of course they're
gone so what i have done is i will take them and i will bring this up so imagine that my half inch
tubing goes further so i'll bring my drippers up and then just kind of tuck it like this so that
way they're not hanging down during the winter and again they completely disappear if you wanted to i
suppose you could actually just kind of disconnect the irrigation the little small tubing from the
emitter storm for the winter and then come spring you can always pop them back in there and there
you go so i hope that you have found this little tutorial um helpful again all of the information
will be linked down below with some websites and some different places that you can purchase these
for your um for your own home again work smarter not harder that's how you can have a great garden
without killing yourself which nothing none of us want to do as always thank you so much for
guarding the creekside you all have a fantastic day we'll see in the next video bye friends