Diy self watering planter

Here are some great DIY self watering ideas for your planters, your garden, or your house plants, so no matter how much fun you have on vacation, you don’t come back to a plant funeral!

Even if you're a city dweller, your kids can have the heart of farmers by container gardening. Jennifer shares with us how she made a self-watering planter.

There are lots of tutorials showing how to make a self-watering planter, but most methods make pretty ugly pots from 5-gallon buckets. So we figured out how to turn ANY pretty pot into a self-watering planter.

Learn how to make a self watering planter using inexpensive materials or materials you already have in your home.

Need to make sure your plants are watered while you're out of town? Make a super easy DIY self-watering planter from a pot.

A quick and easy step by step tutorial how to make a DIY self watering hanging herb garden or flower pot. A small space garden solution!

Samantha Hermann on Instagram: "More tips ⬇️ I’ve made my fair share of self watering pots but none have been this ✨aesthetically pleasing✨ I’m so happy with how this turned out! I’m hoping the sealer I used will hold up to constant moisture, but if it doesn’t I’ll just redo it with something stronger. I also ended up pushing a longer wick up into the soil more, so it could saturate it better. These maranta are adorable and I love that they’re variegated! I plan to keep them back a bit from…

I LOVE plants! OK, that is definitely an understatement – but I DO...love...plants! Any chance I get, it seems I’m adding to the urban farm and garden. So if I have a chance to bring some of the outdoors in, I’m all over it!After doing the DIY for the Ollas, it got me thinking that I could reverse engineer the terracotta pot and turn it into a self-watering planter for herbs. I have some wine barrel planters that I’ve planted my most utilized herbs, but a self-watering planter would…

Lettuce, herbs or flowers will stay hydrated all summer long in this self-watering container garden. Words & photos: Julie Legg Wicking garden beds are ideal for small gardens or where irrigation is not possible as the built-in water reservoir allows plants to access moisture as required. HOW IT WORKS Water is drawn by a wicking process through the soil from a water reservoir beneath. The reservoir is filled either by rainfall or intentional watering and if there’s too much water, an…