Virginia Home Grown
Solar watering
Clip: Season 23 Episode 6 | 2m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Use solar power to save electricity and keep your plants watered
Shana Williams explains how to get started with a solar powered drip irrigation system that can be used indoors or out to keep your plants happy. Featured on VHG episode 2306; August 2023.
Virginia Home Grown is a local public television program presented by VPM
Virginia Home Grown
Solar watering
Clip: Season 23 Episode 6 | 2m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Shana Williams explains how to get started with a solar powered drip irrigation system that can be used indoors or out to keep your plants happy. Featured on VHG episode 2306; August 2023.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(electronic music) >>Today we're going to talk about conserving energy by using solar power to water your plants.
When you're going away, it's a great way to water your household plants and not have to worry about someone coming in the house to do it for you.
You just need to have some sunlight.
We have a solar panel kit, which has a on and off switch.
It also has a timer attached to it.
We have a filter here.
We have our drip-line tips, we have our T's.
We also have the stand and our water hose lines.
Now as we're assembling this, this is hot water and it's important that you put your tubes in hot water.
It softens the tube on the end, so when I go to attach it, I'm not struggling to put that on.
It'll slide on very easily.
So, I'm going to simply take this into this tube here and I'm going to attach it to my out line.
Slide that on.
I also have my tube here, which has already been softened and I'm going to attach it to my filter.
So, as this is in the water, and this is our sensors that tell us what our water level is.
And when these are in the water and the water level is low, it'll start to beep.
Add more water to your container.
So, have these attached.
Make sure this is in a sunny place.
Poke those near the root system of my plants.
Make sure it's turned on.
And voila, this is a great way for you to water your plants at home.
But here at the farm, we can use that on the small level.
We also will use it on the medium level by attaching the water hose lines to our small plants that are growing.
Or we'll use it on the large level, which is high pressure, larger batteries, larger solar panel.
Try this at home.
I'm sure you'll enjoy it and it'll give you a lot of freedom.
Have fun.
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