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==Automated watering==
==Automated watering==
Whether you are home or leaving on a trip, there are different ways you can keep your plants watered without over or under-watering for days or weeks at a time.
Whether you are home or leaving on a trip, there are different ways you can keep your plants watered without over or under-watering for days or weeks at a time.
===Drip irrigation===
Drip irrigation can be set up both indoors or out, if you get enough parts to go from one type of faucet to another. This section describes how to set it up for outdoor hose faucets, but it can also work indoors if you connect it to where the water hose leaves the wall and heads to the sink.
You get a timer that attaches to an outdoor hose faucet, attach drip irrigation tubing (which may require an adaptor), and then run the tubing to your container and put an adjustable dripper on the end. You can split the tubing to run it to more than one plant. Just make sure the tube doesn't slip out of the pot - you should pin it down. The first few days you check for over/underwatering and adjust, and you're set!
===Stakes===
===Stakes===