{"id":714,"date":"2021-10-05T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/?p=714"},"modified":"2021-10-05T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:12:45","slug":"irrigation-from-water-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/irrigation-from-water-butts\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrigation from water butts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/water-butts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/water-butts.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/water-butts-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/water-butts-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/water-butts-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Slimline water butts<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using a simple timer attached to the tap on your water butt can create a simple drip irrigation system to water a raised bed or pots automatically when you are away on holiday etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Installing the water butts or connected water butts so the tap is above the level of the pots or raised beds will create a gravity watering system with the timer which runs on batteries set to water as required. To raise the water butt stacking some concrete building block will create a solid base. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In tight spaces the water butts can be easily disconnected from the houses or buildings downpipes and moved to allow access for maintain etc <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"925\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/1890-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/1890-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/1890-1-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/1890-1-520x687.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/10\/1890-1-320x423.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a simple timer attached to the tap on your water butt can create a simple drip irrigation system to water a raised bed or pots automatically when you are away on holiday etc.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/sallyandkeith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}