Welcome to a new giveaway, courtesy of Greenhouse Sensations. I’m giving away a brilliant Quadgrow Planter worth £42.90, which is perfect for taking the hassle out of plant watering.
If you grow plants in a greenhouse of any size, you’ll be familiar with the task of regular watering. I’ve had a greenhouse on my allotment for a couple of years now, and I’ve learned the hard way that it only takes a day or two to create drought conditions in there. I don’t live very close to my allotment, so having to pop down every day to water a few plants can be a bit of a pain in the Summer months.
Inadequate watering can at worst kill your plants, but even if you manage to keep them alive in your greenhouse, you can easily end up in the situation where you drown them one day, then parch them the next. This pattern doesn’t create strong, healthy plants, so I’ve been looking for ways to make my greenhouse plant watering both easier and more beneficial to my plants.
Automated watering kits are a great option for smoothing out your watering pattern, and this year I’m trying out a couple of plant watering kits from Greenhouse Sensation.
I’m using the Quadgrow Planter to grow my greenhouse tomatoes; it’s also suitable for aubergines, peppers, beans, cucumbers, courgettes and peas. In the box you get a 30 litre reservoir, four large pots, four feeder mats (more about those in a minute), and two bottles of plant food.
The Quadgrow is really easy to set up, and it’s the triangular feeder mats which work the magic when it comes to watering. You push the wider end of the mat through the hole in the bottom of a pot, until the tip is just below the pot’s surface.
Then you place the pot onto the base, making sure the feeder mat goes through the hole into the reservoir. Once you’ve done this, you just plant up the pots as normal, keeping the feeder mat upright in the middle of the compost.
Here’s how my finished pots looked.
You give your plants an initial watering from the top, and after that you simply fill up the reservoir from the access point at the end.
The feeder mats pull water up from the reservoir into the soil around the roots, as and when the plants need it. So the soil is never too dry, or too wet, which means the plants will grow stronger and healthier. Perfect moisture levels are maintained for up to fourteen days, so it’s perfect for when you’re off on holiday too.
Greenhouse Sensations claim that harvests can be twice as big when using a Quadgrow planter; my tomatoes aren’t at the harvest stage yet, but they’re certainly thriving.
Compared to previous years, the plants look so much healthier; there are no dried-up leaves due to lack of water, and everything looks luscious and green. So far, the Quadgrow really is living up to it’s claims.
The Click & Drip Growbag Watering kit with Timer is suitable for all growbag crops; I’m using it on my peppers and cucumbers.
The components look a little complicated, but it’s actually very simple to assemble. There are three 1m lengths of irrigation pipe (you can use it with up to three growbags); you simply peg these down into your growbags, then connect one end to the 25 litre water reservoir.
Once you’re setup and have filled the reservoir, you just turn on the tap and water is dripped slowly into the growbags. The slow dripping soaks the compost rather than forming puddles, which means the plant roots can take up the water more easily and gradually. The reservoir will keep three growbags watered for between three and ten days, depending on plant size and time of year. I was worried about the drip holes in the pipes becoming blocked by the compost, but as they’re designed to only open with internal pressure this doesn’t happen.
If you already have a water butt you can buy the kit without the reservoir, you can also buy it without the timer too (there’s actually a new version of the timer now, which looks a little different to the one in the picture above). I think the timer makes such a difference though, as it allows you to really control the plant watering. I used the kit without the timer for a few days, to see just how much water it provided, then I added in the timer. It has taken a little bit of tweaking to get the watering duration and frequency right for my greenhouse, but now I just check the reservoir every few days and top it up if required. The timer will also be great when we’re on holiday, as we can slow down the watering and avoid the reservoir emptying too quickly.
I’ve always struggled to keep growbag plants alive in the past, but the Click & Drip kit has made a real difference. As with the plants in the Quadgrow, everything looks really healthy and green, with no signs of drought or overwatering.
I’m really pleased with the Quadgrow and the Click & Drip kit. They’ve made plant watering much less laborious for me, and they’re also helping to produce healthier plants. Hopefully we’ll have a bumper greenhouse harvest this year!
The Quadgrow Planter costs £42.90 and the Click & Drip Watering Kit with Timer costs £46.00; both are available from the Greenhouse Sensation website. As well as plant watering solutions, there’s also a wide range of gardening supplies available, including propagators, plant food and general gardening equipment.
Do you think the Quadgrow or Click & Drip could make your plant watering easier and more effective? I’d love to hear what you’d grow in them. You can also enter the giveaway to win a Quadgrow Planter worth £42.90, just follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter widget below. Good luck!
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Tracy Nixon says
June 7, 2016 at 8:27 amI would grow some cherry tomato plants! Thank you x
GEOFF WICKENS says
June 7, 2016 at 8:30 amLIKEWISE CHERRY TOMATOES
iain maciver says
June 7, 2016 at 9:54 amtomatoes
Jim Kerr says
June 7, 2016 at 10:14 amGot to be tomatos, maybe an aubergine just to seee if it will work this summer.
Joanne Beale says
June 7, 2016 at 10:15 amI would grow Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Chilli and Aubergine
Tony Metcalf says
June 7, 2016 at 10:32 amI’d try to grow some tomatoes again. Have tried before, but not very successfully.
Bev says
June 7, 2016 at 11:03 amI’d grow salad leaves
Yvonne Bradley says
June 7, 2016 at 2:07 pmCourettes
Susan Smith says
June 7, 2016 at 3:24 pmPlum tomatoes, and cucumbers
David Shepherdson says
June 7, 2016 at 4:08 pmI’d use it, should I win, to feed my Mammoth Strawberries, keeping them growing and swelling and tasting even better through out the hopefully hot summer months thus giving me one of my five a day!
Iona Cornish says
June 7, 2016 at 5:16 pmTomatoes, Peppers, Courgettes and Cucumbers
Julie says
June 7, 2016 at 6:16 pmI would grow tomatoes and peppers
janine atkin says
June 7, 2016 at 6:48 pmnot sure, id give this to my mother in law who is always growing something or another!
Andrea Fletcher says
June 7, 2016 at 7:34 pmI would grow cherry tomatoes.
laura banks says
June 7, 2016 at 7:42 pmprobably tomatos but the hubby is quite into fruit at the moment
Rikka Borston says
June 7, 2016 at 8:28 pmToms of course
Alan Burrows says
June 7, 2016 at 9:07 pmChilies and tomatoes
Margaret Gallagher says
June 7, 2016 at 11:26 pmCucumbers
Always so tricky to gage the amount of water
This sounds perfect
Ruth Harwood says
June 8, 2016 at 9:05 amI’d try growing some herbs like Mint and Rosemary xx
Ray Dodds says
June 8, 2016 at 10:39 amPlum tomatoes
Christina Palmer says
June 8, 2016 at 1:42 pmTomatoes or radishes
Denielle Nicol says
June 8, 2016 at 2:08 pmI’d try tomatoes
Wendy Collard says
June 8, 2016 at 3:56 pmTomatoes and courgettes
Kim M says
June 8, 2016 at 7:07 pmTomatoes and cucumbers x
Joanne Oneill says
June 8, 2016 at 9:57 pmI would grow moneypenny tomatoes and chillies
Terri-Louise Dudey says
June 8, 2016 at 9:59 pmcucumber and peppers my children’s favourite’s xx
Cara jones says
June 9, 2016 at 3:55 pmChocolate cherry tomatoes plants and cucumber. . Wouldn’t have to worry about then when away
Alan Lord says
June 9, 2016 at 3:57 pmI grow chillies and love the Quadgrow.
Kim Styles says
June 9, 2016 at 7:56 pmI would grow cherry plum tomatoes
barbara daniels says
June 10, 2016 at 7:22 amId grow some hyacinths
Karen Jones says
June 10, 2016 at 12:21 pmWould grow old varieties of tomatoes x
aaron broad says
June 10, 2016 at 12:26 pmI would try and grow a sunflower
Kat Lucas says
June 10, 2016 at 12:56 pmI grow some pumpkins
jo liddement says
June 11, 2016 at 5:03 pmI would grow cucumbers,tomatoes and peppers
sallyann Johnston says
June 11, 2016 at 8:52 pmCourgettes is my choice I love them and so do the kids when their roasted x
hannah brooker says
June 12, 2016 at 12:34 pmTomatoes, maybe start the strawberries off, peppers so much!
Lisa Everaert says
June 12, 2016 at 4:12 pmI would grow Tomatoes and Peppers and we eat alot of both.
Ian Campbell says
June 12, 2016 at 10:20 pmI’d love to grow some tomatoes and courgettes in mine. Nothing beats home grown veg!
Rebecca Nisbet says
June 12, 2016 at 10:40 pmi would love to try and grow some strawberries.
MARK PRITCHARD says
June 13, 2016 at 6:37 pmChillies all the way
cheryl hadfield says
June 13, 2016 at 9:51 pmI would grow tomatoes
Rachel Butterworth says
June 13, 2016 at 11:19 pmStrawberries and tomatoes.
Olivia Hinton says
June 14, 2016 at 12:31 amI love growing heritage tomatoes, lots of different ones but the greenhouse at the allotment doesn’t always get watered especially now with a 13 month old…
Hannah Bee Griffin says
June 14, 2016 at 2:12 pmI would grow my tomatoes in them. I am growing a variety called Flamingo this year, the whole family are looking forward to munching on them
grace collins says
June 14, 2016 at 5:14 pmcucumbers
Nicola Marshall says
June 15, 2016 at 9:46 pmCucumbers and tomatoes.
Pat Collingwood says
June 16, 2016 at 10:25 amTomatoes
Chrissie Curtis says
June 17, 2016 at 7:26 pmTomatoes!
charlotte wilde says
June 17, 2016 at 7:51 pmI’d grow cucumbers – my fave things to grow!
Ellie Lane says
June 18, 2016 at 12:21 pmI would grow piccolo tomatoes, they are the sweetest and tastiest cherry toms I’ve ever had.
carole n says
June 18, 2016 at 4:09 pmi love growing easy vegetables and would use this for tomatoes
Sheri Darby says
June 18, 2016 at 7:10 pmI would grow tomatoes
MANDY DOHERTY says
June 19, 2016 at 11:23 amChillies and tomatoes
JULIE WARD says
June 19, 2016 at 8:48 pmI would give a friend who grows toms, peppers, cucumber etc
michelle o'neill says
June 20, 2016 at 6:48 amI would grow tomatoes xx
Billy Dale says
June 20, 2016 at 7:53 amHi,
My little boy and I like chilli’s and have decided to start growing our own, but we’re not very green fingered.
I have ordered some Carolina reapers, Trinidad scorpions and some white but jolokias.
Thanks.
Kirsty Hosty says
June 20, 2016 at 10:09 pmI would try and grow Chilli plants again, however the slugs keep eating them!!
Louise Lumsden says
June 20, 2016 at 10:16 pmI would like to try chilli peppers, tomatoes & cucumbers, we are growing them this year in our new poly tunnel so would be good to see how they compare in the quadrow planters next year
Emma Walton says
June 21, 2016 at 5:30 pmI would try to grow some peppers because I haven’t had a lot of luck with them so far.
Christine Caple says
June 21, 2016 at 6:37 pmWe would try to grow some tomatoes
Sally Collingwood says
June 22, 2016 at 9:35 amPeppers, all sorts
Niki Clifton says
June 22, 2016 at 10:01 amtomatoes &
gooseberries
Donna Caldwell says
June 22, 2016 at 5:19 pmI’d grow so herbs and some strawberries
Bobbie Minthull says
June 22, 2016 at 6:25 pmtomatoes and courgettes
Susan B says
June 23, 2016 at 11:43 amIt’s a bit late for tomatoes, which are my favourite vegetable, so I would try something in the brassica family and overwinter them.
Chris S says
June 24, 2016 at 7:14 amI think I would give melons a try. I have had some success with them in the past and would like to try again.
kim neville says
June 24, 2016 at 11:18 amcucumbers and tomatoes
Rebecca Howells (@PeanutHog) says
June 24, 2016 at 2:27 pmI think i’d try tomatoes or cucumbers as I haven’t tried these veg before.
janet clegg says
June 24, 2016 at 8:33 pmChillies and peppers
Pam Smith says
June 25, 2016 at 7:44 amPeppers and tomatoes
Allan Fullarton says
June 25, 2016 at 10:15 amTomatos
Sam McKean says
June 25, 2016 at 11:34 amI would plant tomatoes and cucumbers, we get through loads every summer!
Keith Hunt says
June 25, 2016 at 2:02 pmQuadgrow Planter looks good for kids sun flowers or tomates for my pizza
Gillian Goodwin says
June 25, 2016 at 3:59 pmPeppers and chillis
tee simpson says
June 25, 2016 at 11:36 pmI plan to grow tomatoes
Adrian Bold says
June 26, 2016 at 12:49 amPlum tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.
Karen B says
June 26, 2016 at 12:22 pmTomatoes, probably the sweet cherry ones.
Amanda Gregory says
June 26, 2016 at 1:16 pmChillies and courgettes are probably what i would choose.
donna l jones says
June 26, 2016 at 3:50 pmi would do chillies
christine WESTLAKE says
June 26, 2016 at 5:33 pmtomatoes , salad leaves and anything else that takes my fancy
SUSAN L HALL says
June 26, 2016 at 6:41 pmI would grow Tomatoes and herbs
lynn savage says
June 26, 2016 at 6:53 pmI’d use it to grow some tomatoes, cucumbers and maybe chillies
Margaret Abram says
June 26, 2016 at 9:46 pmA variety of tomatoes
lynn neal says
June 26, 2016 at 11:06 pmI would try tomatoes first underplanted with basil!
Sparklett21 says
June 27, 2016 at 12:57 amI’d love to grow some Shiso & Parsley❤️
Jane Gorton says
June 27, 2016 at 1:26 amI would grow a selection of tomato plants as all the family love these. Fantastic prize, thank you x
carol boffey says
June 27, 2016 at 8:34 amId grow tomatos
Melissa Lee says
June 27, 2016 at 10:56 amI attempted some tomato plants this year which didn’t work out so I would love to try those again!
Michelle Sykes says
June 27, 2016 at 11:23 amI would grow Tomatoes and cucumber
Kirsti Peters says
June 27, 2016 at 11:47 amSome vegetables, like tomatoes and chilli, maybe a herb like basil
Stevie says
June 27, 2016 at 11:53 amI’d start with peas and strawberry. It would be a great introduction to my nieces.
Dawn F says
June 27, 2016 at 3:38 pmI’d grow strawberries and tomatos
louise gazeley says
June 27, 2016 at 6:29 pmAs I can’t grow Quorn, I’d be torn, between stir-fry goodies and berries for ‘puddies’
Claire Nelson says
June 27, 2016 at 7:15 pmI would grow tomatoes
Karl Borowy says
June 27, 2016 at 7:23 pmFRESH SMALL YELLOW AND RED TOMATOS
Teresa Sheldon says
June 27, 2016 at 7:38 pmYour tomatoes seemed to do well so id do them along with cucumber and peppers I wonder if their good for flowers?
Catherine says
June 28, 2016 at 11:57 amI think they’d be great for keeping any plant well-watered!
Alison Johnson says
June 27, 2016 at 8:38 pmChillis for Hubbys cooking
Natalie Crossan says
June 27, 2016 at 8:44 pmsalad leaves
Victoria Prince says
June 27, 2016 at 9:18 pmI’d love to try growing some herbs in it 🙂
Melanie Burton says
June 27, 2016 at 9:25 pmI would grow tomatoes and attempt to grow some raspberries.
Kat Glynn says
June 27, 2016 at 9:28 pmI would grow peppers, mine always need a bit more attention than everything else.
Kate Smith says
June 27, 2016 at 9:30 pmAubergines, tomatoes and cucumbers
Pauline black says
June 27, 2016 at 11:15 pmPeppers tomatoes and herbs!
Natalie Gillham says
June 27, 2016 at 11:20 pmI would grow tomatoes, peppers and herbs x
Leanne Bell says
June 27, 2016 at 11:25 pmI would love to try and grow peppers x