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We’ve made the Brentmoor Slow Release Tree Watering Bags the Runner-up in our review of Watering Kits and Systems for Newly Planted Trees. We like that it’s simple to use and inexpensive, and provides a low-tech solution for those who have just a couple of new trees in their garden. Combine with any water controller for Automatic Watering at a time that is convenient for you. Adding a controller means no more getting up at sunrise or sunset to water your plants and the peace of mind that your plants will remain healthy whilst you are away or on holiday. Keeping newly planted trees alive and creating the best environment for them to flourish is a complex task. Set aside your worries about how and when to water them by automating the irrigation process. Setting up an irrigation system is the best way to go.
The bag capacity is 75L of water, released slowly over five to seven hours for even and sustained watering of your trees. Easily and accurately regulate how much water each dripper delivers ensuring your plants get the water they need to thrive.These contain comprehensive Buyer’s Guides as well as information about other drip irrigation systems, soaker hoses, and timers for other garden tasks. General watering systems
The Flexi Hose carries water from your tap to the Universal Drippers that can be positioned around your garden. The flexibility of the hose makes installation a breeze; plus the hose can be easily cut to create a layout tailored to your garden. Gardening experts state that the best watering system for newly planted trees is a soaker hose or a drip irrigation system. We cover both in this review.
Our Runner up is the decidedly low-tech and totally manual Brentmoor Slow Release Tree Watering Bags. This is a 75L PVC bag that you zip up around the base of the tree and fill with water. The water releases through drip irrigation to the roots of the tree during a period of five to seven hours. Yes, there is manual effort involved in filling up the bags with water using your garden hose. And remembering when to do so. But if you have just a couple of new trees to look after, it doesn’t take long each time – simply set a reminder on your phone to do so. Pros
Whatever irrigation system you’ve set up for your young or newly planted trees, the Orbit 96781 ‘Buddy HF’ Single-Port Digital Tap Timer allows you to automate the entire watering process. Connect the timer to your outside tap and connect your garden hose to the timer. Being a single-port timer, you can only attach one hose to it, however. The HF in the timer’s name stands for High Flow, in that it delivers 20% more water flow than most other timers. By programming the optimum watering schedule into a timer, you won’t be constantly anxious about remembering when you last watered these vulnerable plants.The Orbit 96781 ‘Buddy HF’ Single-Port Digital Tap Timer has all the features to help you plan your watering schedule for any newly planted trees. It handles anything from a simple ‘one session a day’ schedule to a complicated timetable of several watering periods a day separated by an interval of time or a few days. The rain delay feature lets you temporarily and automatically cancel watering during a rainy period. Unfortunately, you can only connect one hose to this Orbit timer. If you have a complicated irrigation system, look at other Orbit timers (there’s quite a range) or figure out how to split the one hose into more within the system using multi-connectors. A really useful feature is that you can adjust the flow of water through each dripper separately. If you’re watering two trees with the same hose/kit and they each have different watering requirements, you can make sure that each tree receives the correct amount of water. The end of the hose has a cap to ensure that all the water exits through the drippers. Consider replacing this with a sprinkler for an additional way of irrigating your tree. You will need to buy the timer separately to automate this watering system. This is not essential because you can just turn the tap on manually when needed.
The cleverly engineered Universal Drippers can be easily connected to the Flexi Hose and are designed to deliver water from 0 to 40 litres per hour to the surrounding area Flexible watering schedules are possible through start time, duration, and frequency of watering sessions.In this review, we take a look at different watering systems that do the job well, specifically a drip watering system, a soaker hose, and a low-tech bag irrigation system. As none of these are automated when you buy them, we have included a review of an Orbit water timer. The HydroSure Soaker Hose delivers water directly to the base of multiple newly planted trees and is really good if you have a long length of planted trees or hedging, up a long driveway for example – you won’t waste water. You can also cut the porous rubber hose into lengths to surround each tree and deliver it to the roots by connecting the soaker hose to your garden hose. This isn’t an automatic system yet, so you need to buy a water timer to set up scheduled sessions – see the next review for our recommendation for this. Usable anywhere in the garden – flowerbeds, vegetable gardens and the greenhouse, just to name a few. With this Orbit timer, you have many options for your watering schedule. Set the start time, duration of the watering session, and the frequency you want your sessions. The duration can be anywhere from 1 to 360 minutes and you can water on specific days of the week or in intervals of so many hours. It’s straightforward to program the timer and the dial is large and easy to read. When it comes to watering trees, we always recommend watering deeply and less often instead of frequently and shallowly.
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