or less depending on how much direct, hot sun your plants receive. Make several bottles to place in all your large containers or next to plants in your garden such as tomatoes that require a lot of water." 1 How this plant dripper saves your time This can reduce the time it takes to water your plants. Just zip along the rows filling each bottle with water from your garden hose. Also, you can water them in the hot sunlight because you will not get water on the leaves. Auto-fill Drip Irrigation System Until now, I've been filling my drip irrigation bottles by hand. To save time, today I tried to auto-fill them using connectors and a feeder hose. I made a hole in the lid. I used a drill. Placed the lid on a wood bench. Drilled the hole. Inserted a feed hose connector (from garden centre). Then I pushed on a short length of feeder hose. These 3 litre bottles are my preference. The other end of the feeder hose attaches to a push-in feed hose connector on our black alkathine hose. This comes from the garden tap. I joined the dripper bottles to the thin-wall alkathine using 4mm Offtakes, by Plassay, Yates, obtained from a garden center. Connects 4mm feeder tubing to 13mm water line. Water comes from the tap, through a tap-timer ($NZ 24) along the 13mm garden alkathene hose (thin walled hose) then into the thin feed hose. This enters the top of the bottle.