How to make a watering can with your own hands?

A personal plot or greenhouse, a vegetable garden and a garden, flower beds in front of the house or flowerpots in the yard - all this requires watering. But it is extremely dangerous to water fragile, thin flowers with a hose. There is a way out: you need to make a watering can with your own hands from scrap materials.

It is often assumed that the sprinkler is just an everyday tool. However, this opinion is mainly held by people far from farming. Any gardener knows very well that even such a utilitarian device has more than just functional significance. We need to think about the design to fit into the design of the surrounding area or apartment.

You can make a watering can for an apartment or a private house at home in a single-color version. But such a thing is unlikely to attract enthusiastic glances and delight anyone, including the owners. After all, exactly a similar tool is easy to purchase in a store. Sometimes they use juicy bright stickers applied to the surface. But the complete gluing of the watering can is not recommended, because the naked stickers will quickly deteriorate, peel off.

Only covering with tape helps to avoid the destruction of such decorations. However, the surface covered with tape is unlikely to look aesthetically pleasing. Experts advise to supplement the watering cans with sprayers. Drip irrigation of home flowers helps to freshen the leaves.

The easiest way, perhaps, is to make a homemade watering can from a plastic bottle. Narrow holes are made in the lid using an awl, a sharp needle or a soldering iron tip. But such designs look too mundane. You can make a more original sprinkler by using non-standard bottles. You can find them in the store without any problems, you just need to spend more time.

Pasting a structure of complex shape is very difficult. The solution is often staining. But it is used only when the surface is dense and does not bend. On a loose, unstable base, any paint will crack quickly. By itself, such an appearance may look original - but this solution is acceptable mainly for summer cottages.

A watering can for flowers can be made from the most ordinary glass. Such a workpiece is more difficult to process. But difficulties of this kind are justified by long-term operation and attractive appearance. Sometimes they also take large ceramic mugs. It is no longer necessary to punch the irrigation holes with needles, but with a drill. Drilling should be done as carefully as possible. If the material bursts or cracks, the workpiece will be hopelessly damaged. Therefore, it is better to spend an extra few minutes than spoil your plan. When the holes are punched, proceed as follows:

• take a plastic tube of the same thickness as the hole;
• cover the tube and glass with the same paint;
• insert the tube into the glass;
• glue them so that there are no places left through which water can flow.

It is best to use mugs with a narrow neck. Excessive water will flow through the wide outlet. As a result, you will have to use the already modest capacity only partially.When a large amount of water needs to be poured out for indoor plants, it is advisable to use a different design. The enlarged watering can is prepared from bottles for detergents.

To make it more beautiful, randomly spaced lines are applied with the most common paints. This will create the impression of an avant-garde garden tool. A pleasant side effect is that the dirt will be less visible. You can exclude the washing off of the picture by covering the watering can with a layer of varnish. If done correctly, it will even be possible to leave the sprinkler in the yard as a decorative element.

Some people prefer to make watering cans from cans. All oily liquids and flammable substances must be washed out of there in advance. Otherwise, plant safety is not guaranteed. The pipe is often formed from tin. It is recommended to prepare a scrupulous drawing in advance in order to exclude accidental errors.

The folded edges of the sheet metal must be carefully attached to each other. For this operation, beaters or mallets are used. The tube must be placed in the prepared hole. Next, the tube is pulled over the tap, and another section of it is placed at the other end of the tap. The rigid tube must be carefully pulled over the protruding part of the flexible channel, the joint must be airtight, therefore, it must be pulled as far as it will go.

Once the tubing is complete, hook the strap to the handle of the canister. The selection of the belt length is at your discretion. To create a nozzle that sprays water, you usually take old containers from photographic films. In the lid of such containers, it is necessary to punch a hole of the same diameter as the rigid tube. In the other part, a mass of holes is prepared.

You can learn more about how to make a watering can for watering seedlings with your own hands.