Comments on: Ollas

By: The Mt. Baldy Eagle

The Mt. Baldy Eagle — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:18:18 +0000

Just wanted to follow up on how your Ollas are working! Seems like a great idea to me.

Dave over at….
http://mtbaldyeagle.blogspot.com/

By: -d

-d — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:45:04 +0000

I just watched a clip on those jars and said something to Jeff about using one. We are trying to make a decision on a rain barrel too. Haven’t decided on what exactly we are going to do about that one…

I’ve been inspired by the Dervaes family but I’d miss my green yard if I used the entire thing for gardening… not to mention I have a very black thumb… so I think we’ll stick with our blackberries and various veggies for now.
-d

By: anne

anne — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:35:30 +0000

Very cool!

By: Dianne Patrizzi

Dianne Patrizzi — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:12:51 +0000

My sister used to make ollas and I used to break them. That is why she always chased me around the yard.

By: Palm

Palm — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:30:34 +0000

I lived in East L.A. for a number of years and a watering technique I often saw employed by local folk, was to take a plastic milk container, fill it with water and punch a small whole in the bottom. You set them up in the plant’s water well.

By: Mom

Mom — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:13:27 +0000

I forgot to mention that I love the Ollas but where both my neighbor and I are the ground is ssssoooo rocky that just to plant the new little trees that he brought with him, he had to dig out so many rocks he said he could open a quarry. One of the reasons some of our plants are having such a hard time is because we are on a rock hill with just a little soil. Suffice it to say, I love the ollas, but don’t think I could penetrate the rock to bury them. Bought some 5 gallon buckets today at Lowes and am going to drill some 1/4 ” holes in them to see if it does the trick if I set them full of water twice a week next to my very very thirsty plants for the water to seep out slowly. We can now use our sprinklers once a week so maybe everything won’t die this year.

By: Mom

Mom — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:07:15 +0000

ah now I know what those earlier pictures were about. I just couldn’t figure it out.
The gentleman that moved in across the street from us works (actually heads up) the local water company and seems to be quite a kindred spirit when it comes to conservation and loving trees/plants. He suggested we put some cheap vegetable oil to form a film on top of the rain barrel to keep mosquitos from breeding. Zowie it works great and no harm to the plants when we use the rain water to water (we got an old recycled oak wine barrel from Home Depot that works great and even has a hose bib at the base). Also he has a five gallon bucket that he has punched holes in the bottom of that he fills with water and then lets the water slowly drain through the holes to water his trees. Works great! and in drought stricken Georgia we need every idea we can come up with to keep things alive without wasting water.