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| Thread ID: 109101 | 2010-04-24 04:40:00 | Recommendations for garden irrigation timer? | John H (8) | PC World Chat |
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| 879574 | 2010-04-27 08:27:00 | +1 :lol: They will be having a closing down sale very soon !! | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 879575 | 2010-04-27 11:15:00 | Well, the neighbours were speculating on whether the produce of my new greenhouse would be kosher... And my irrigation system looks remarkably like the one on the Stuff website story. | John H (8) | ||
| 879576 | 2010-04-27 11:17:00 | I'd be wary of them. These cheap devices can fail, and do you really want to come home to a lake and a huge water bill? The're fine if someone is checking on them, but they may as well water the plants while they're there huh? My daughter in South Western Australia indeed came home to a lake, but that was because one of their irrigation hoses ruptured whilst they were away from home - the rupture wasn't noticed because the hose was buried, and the lake only became apparent when it broke through to the surface. And no, we do not get water bills other than the standard charge on our rates. |
John H (8) | ||
| 879577 | 2010-04-27 11:22:00 | Best to use a professional solenoid and a digital timer, far more reliable. Don't you get on with your next door neighbours, as it is normal for neighbours to do that for one another. We get on fine with our neighbours, but they all have other lives, two jobs, and children etc etc and I would prefer to only call on them for something important. If there is a technological way around this I will try it and save asking the neighbours for favours until some other occasion when it is really necessary. If my investigations come up with a brick wall, I will probably offer the teenage boy next door some shekels to do it whilst we are away. He may do it for nothing given the extraordinary number of times he has been over here tramping all over the garden trying to find his cricket ball. He might as well do the watering whilst he is hunting. |
John H (8) | ||
| 879578 | 2010-04-27 11:23:00 | My neighbors look after my place better than I do when I go on holiday. She cant stand weeds so she murders any loafing weed on my place. She even put one my chooks in intensive care at her place when it looked a bit crook, chook was about 6 years old no spring chicken. It came right though. A neighbour with benefits indeed... :lol: |
John H (8) | ||
| 879579 | 2010-04-27 11:35:00 | Go to Switched on Gardner if you can find a branch near you that is still open. After seeing some of the stuff they has on sale at the back of the store, I am not surprised. What is a garden store doing selling fireworks too. A snotty letter on their website regarding the target program last year is worth reading. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 879580 | 2010-04-27 12:13:00 | Please note that I am not accusing John H of growing suspect plants. However, I did hear that a household down south had a huge power bill at one time. Waits for the powers that be to enact legislation so that enforcement people get to read my electricity meter. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 879581 | 2010-04-27 21:34:00 | deleted | Zippity (58) | ||
| 879582 | 2010-04-28 09:55:00 | Search over. I bought a couple of manual timers. I will ask the teens next door to come over and turn them on for the greenhouse and raised gardens, setting them for a length of time I will work out over the coming week. That way they can just turn them on and go away without having to come back to turn the taps off. The woman at Mitre 10 suggested going this way, because: a. the electronic timers cost an arm and a leg, and b. you might ask teenagers to turn the water on, but could you either expect them or trust them to remember to come back and turn them off again...??? It may be disparaging to youth, but she was an older granny, and I suspect she knows what she is talking about. |
John H (8) | ||
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