Do-It-Yourself Self-Watering Container

With all of the extra seedlings we have this year and the limited space in our garden beds, I was motivated to look at ways to expand our growing area. I was first introduced to the concept of self-watering containers over at Our Engineered Garden and, just as I always do when I’m presented with something new and interesting, I read everything I could find about it on the web. The basic concept of the self-watering container is very simple. Water is stored in a lower reservoir; a “wick” draws the water up into the soil container keeping the soil moist and watering your plants from the bottom. In this tutorial we show you how to make a simple container from readily available materials…total cost around $6.