{"id":1863,"date":"2010-07-01T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/garden\/planters\/no-more-holiday-watering-woes"},"modified":"2010-07-01T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:00:57","slug":"no-more-holiday-watering-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/garden\/planters\/no-more-holiday-watering-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Holiday Watering Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/images\/greenhouse-sensation\/quadgrow-pots.jpg\" alt=\" No More Holiday Watering Woes \" class=\"right\" \/>Summer is upon us, which means gardeners are struggling to strike the fine balance between under-watering and over-watering and wondering who they should get to provide holiday watering cover.<\/p>\n<p>Help is at hand as a company has set up a helpline to provide free watering advice and developed a range of innovative holiday-proof watering products.<\/p>\n<p>Lancashire-based gardening products retailer and manufacturer, Greenhouse Sensation has set up a free \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGardening Angel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phone and email advice service, to answer watering related questions.<br \/>\nAccording to Gardening Angels, most people know that it is important to ensure plants are not under-watered, because they need water in order to transport nutrients to all parts of a plant, but most people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realise that it is just as damaging to over-water.<\/p>\n<p>Over-watering forces air out of the root area. It is the most common cause of plant fungal infections, proliferation of pests, root rot, yellow leaves and ultimately, plant death.<\/p>\n<p>The most common result of erratic watering is blossom end rot; the tell tale sign is tomatoes, peppers and aubergines with brown\/black bottoms. Finding the correct middle path for specific plants in a specific garden or greenhouse is a difficult task.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want a bit more certainty about their plants, the Quadgrow from Greenhouse Sensation is a set of 4 pots that keeps plants perfectly watered for two weeks at a time, banishing overwatering, underwatering and holiday plant care rotas &#8211; forever.<\/p>\n<p>Plants can be taken out of their standard pots and growbags and put into a Quadgrow.<\/p>\n<p>SmartMats link the Quadgrow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s massive 34litre reserve of water with the compost in the pots, delivering water to the compost when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needed.<\/p>\n<p>The automated watering is more responsive to a plant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needs than manual watering; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like standing over their plant all day adding teaspoons of water; the plants receive exactly what they need, when they need it, so that they grow stronger and healthier, producing bigger harvests.<br \/>\nQuadgrow.<br \/>\nSize: L55cm x W55cm.<br \/>\nPrice: \u00c2\u00a352.90.<br \/>\nFor further information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenhousesensation.co.uk\/\" title=\"Greehouse Sensation\">Quadgrow planters<\/a> and stockists visit the Greenhouse Sensation website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is upon us, which means gardeners are struggling to strike the fine balance between under-watering and over-watering and wondering who they should get to provide holiday watering cover. Help is at hand as a company has set up a helpline to provide free watering advice and developed a range of innovative holiday-proof watering products. Lancashire-based gardening products retailer and manufacturer, Greenhouse Sensation has set up a free \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGardening Angel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phone and email advice service, to answer watering related questions. According to Gardening Angels, most people know that it is important to ensure plants are not under-watered, because they need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/garden\/planters\/no-more-holiday-watering-woes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[279,283,268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}