Olla (clay pot)

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A Olla [ oʎa ] is a porous, unglazed jug simple clay ( terracotta ), which for irrigation of plantations is buried and gardens in the ground. It serves as a water reservoir for the cultivated plants in dry periods. In the past, the process was mainly used in desert areas for watering gardens. The shape of the ollas is partly reminiscent of ancient amphorae . Since ollas are dug deep into the ground, they do not need feet and therefore the ollas designed for irrigation systems are usually round or tapered at the bottom. The first written evidence of the use of this irrigation method in China over 2000 years ago was found in The Book of Fan Shengzhi .

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Commons : Ollas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ollas on mein-schoener-garten.de
• Ute Woltron: Konfuzius im Garten , Die Presse , February 24, 2018, accessed on April 27, 2020.
• Amphorae (french)
• Global Buckets (English)
• Ulrich Theobald: Fan Shengzhi shu 氾 勝 之 書 "The Book of Fan Shengzhi" . July 6, 2010. (Souzhongfa Irrigation, accessed June 19, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Dromgoole: Watering with ollas , 2013, Central Texas Gardener. (Accessed May 2, 2020)
2. ^ David A. Bainbridge: Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques , 2015, Storey Publishing, ISBN 9781612125831
3. ↑ Ulrich Theobald: Fan Shengzhi shu 氾 勝 之 書 "The Book of Fan Shengzhi" . July 6, 2010. (Souzhongfa Irrigation, accessed May 31, 2020)