Automated Plant Watering

Wed, 01 May 2024 15:00:00 -0400

Every spring, my wife and I get really excited about all the pretty plants and flowers that we can decorate our yard with. We also generally grow some vegetables and/or herbs. The problem with this is that we live in Georgia in the US and it gets freaking hot and humid here during the summer. The oppressive heat makes us not want to go outside to water the plants. Combine this with a little bit of traveling and you have a recipe for mostly dead plants during the latter part of the growing season. Well, this year we decided to not only acknowledge this reality, but to do something about it. You see, I’m a bit of a home automation nut and my wife knows it. She was shopping on Amazon and came across an inexpensive drip irrigation kit for gardens and decided to buy it for a raised flower bed we were already planning to setup this year. When it came in, she showed it to me and said “now I just need you to make it come on automatically.” As you might be able to guess, I was more than happy to take up that challenge. I spent a couple of days doing research to find a solution that fit within these self-imposed parameters:

Gardening on The Comfy Seat

Automated Plant Watering