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hi i have a soaker hose and was wondering weather it is possible to connect it to my waterbutt tap, i wasnt sure if there would be enough presure. whats your thoughts?
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My first thought is that as long as the soaker hose is below the tap and does not have to go uphill, it will be gravity fed at least. Whether or not the water will ooze out, depends on surface tension and the size of holes, I imagine. That's assuming that your hose is not one of those ones which is entirely porous - I'd guess that those ones need more pressure to work.
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As above, give it a go and see - then report your findings back for us lot to copy!
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I've got a seep hose running from my water butt into the greenhouse tomato bed. The whole thing empties in an afternoon. Works fine. Just a shame there's been no rain for ages to fill up the butt,Comment
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hi all, just letting you all know that it does work, it takes 3 days to empty a 100l water butt so it works quite well. saves me doing it all by hand twice a day.Comment
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Ta, all I need now is a water butt and some way of diverting water from the guttering...(makes note on jobs list)
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I use a seep hose in my polytunnel around my exhibition onions. I have it covered with black and white polythene, black side down to keep the weeds down, white side up to reflect the heat and light. It works brilliantly. My biggest problem is remembering to turn the tap off as it empties my 34 gallon water butt overnight if I don't.Comment
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It'd be a good way of watering a poly/gh if you're going away for a weekend at least anyway.. perhaps with the tap half open.Comment
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I've irrigated my greenhouse with drippers off a butt for about 10 years and it works really well. Installed a load of soaker hose on a timer off two butts outside my polytunnel last year and don't have to direct water very often at all now. The tunnel is 10' by 20' with demarked beds and a number of sectionso of soaker running off a normal hose ringmain. When the ground is drier it takes more water which is what you want. I tend to use that for normal watering (thankfully I can top of the butts from an IBC further up the plot by gravity - slope on plot - but did have to resort to taking large pop bottles of water up last June to keep them full enough so the plants didn't die of thirst. On top of this I feed directly into upturned pop bottles in the polytunnel borders from a watering can with made up feed. Did well last year and doing good this year so far too. Last autumn I got 2 weeks watering out of it by giving it a good water first and then leaving it on for about an hour every night. No probs at all although it's worth making sure your butts on on stands so that you get a bit of extra head out of them.
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