If you’re a subscriber, you’ll know I put a video out already about making a self watering pot. Well, a reader sent me some 5 gallon bucket inserts he made and I …
homemade dirt plate: 4 plastic shot glasses with 2, 1/8th inch holes drilled in the bottom of each shot glass. Next, get a plastic plate and cut to size, slightly smaller than the circumference of the 5-gallon bucket. Next, cut holes in the plastic plate, slightly smaller than the circumference of the shot glasses' rim, add glue to the rim of the shot glasses, and press onto the corresponding holes in the lid, allow to dry. Done.
I like the dirt plate. Thx for reviewing. I'm going to go to the website. Really looking forward to your book. I have the land but not the time so really looking at the 5 gallon buckets as a way to streamline gardening for me. I've learned by trial and error that veggies need lots of water in containers and that's where I have failed in the past with my containers.
What happened to the fill tube? Is it optional? Is there an alternative way to fill it that I’m missing?
Excellent design…I love it. !
For 8 dollars, I could buy two 5 gallon buckets and make one. Especially how the item is just small plastic it would cost less than 50 cents to make. What a ripoff
Hello Epic Gardening: Would you be kind enough to comment on where (at what height) should one drill the drain hole? Meaning, should the 5-gallon bucket carry 1-gallon of water? If so I can just pour a gallon of water in the bucket and use the waterline as the "mark" for where to drill the hole? And should there be a gap between the top of the reservoir and the bottom of the soil, so that the Wicking is the only thing pulling the moisture?
so the base you're showing is like… something you can buy in a commercial pot. just FYI. we have similar here in Aus.
I would like to have the kit. Where can I order it?
Just paint the outside of the black bucket white, so it will reflect light from outside, and block it from inside at the same time.
A dressing of small stones or grit on top of the mulching plate would prevent the wind from lifting it out, breaking the plant/s and blowing away.
How do you water this shits when the water runs out?
If you want to level up. Start in spring with black buckets then when it gets hotter, put the black bucket in the white bucket. Doubles as extra water reserve if you set it right and reflects more light. I use to cook the shells in my fireplace but I found using less and not cooking them won't lime the soil as hard and the grit in the organic matter behaves like soil and slowly releases the right amount.
How do you refill the bucket?
Already a old system but a different way Gratsky grow system I like that system and using it myself for a couple off years now
I love the idea. If you have shallow rooted veggies could you sue shorter buckets and less soil?
Please post a link to where we can get these
Very good sir good idea good information I am ck kharar punjab India say
Would wicking tubes work for cannabis, I'm in Canada it's legal, mat try a few in this style just bigger
Result?
Cool design.
I often leave for vacation in summer. This could help the regular watering for my veggies while I'm away. No need to bother friends to come over and water any more. How long between watering with this set up using regular mulch?
This is really great. You're videos have helped me learn a lot, thanks!
Great idea but you run out of water at the bottom, the plant will die? So we must know how much water we need in advance
Hey, what about using smaller capacity bucket? Like 2 gal
I think the wicking cups would be better designed with holes on the side rather than the bottom which seems to be blocked when placing inside the bucket.
I my opinion, this system is not a true self watering pot. You still have to fill the reservoir with water. If you put a pan with a lip as high as the overflow hole under the bucket. Drill holes at the bottom of the bucket. Install a swamp cooler float valve and adjust the water level as high as the overflow drilled holes. Adapt a 1/4 drip hose from the float to a garden hose or water supply. Voila! you have a true self watering pot!
I just put empty jugs with a few holes drilled in the top and a few holes about an inch up from the bottom of the jug and put them down in the bottom of the bucket. The idea comes from gardening with Leon channel.
Ive seen people use some strips of cloth from the water hole up to the top of the pot through the dirt to wick water up.
90% of made-up names are Fred
👊👍
Hi I am new to growing and seen this I was looking for ( video )the black one you did can you please send me the video pls thanks
Nice “dove tail” that’s the term I’m sheet metal fabrication
Use a small plant pot for the wicking chamber. Make your own base. You can use swampy ground for your reservoir, just cut a hole and put the wicking chamber straight into the bottom of the bucket.
and the bigger question is how did he ma And the biggest question is how was that green thing made? It's a nice presentation don't get me wrong but it doesn't seem helpful to me if nobody knows where you can go to learn how to make it
I believe that if I cannot build it myself I won't give it to Seconds of time. I would not buy that green thing w The four attached cup looking thingies
great idea, I will make this too.
Does the constant moisture lead to root rot
Too much..
Does that mulch plate allow for water to come in or do u need to take it out to water the bucket if we haven’t had a lot of rain?
Did you forget the pipe?
Fell asleep after 2/3 minutes 🤯
where do you get the dirt plate?????
This video got me thinking. I have white 5G buckets with water overflow hole on side 2 inch from bottom and slightly smaller standard nursery black plastic buckets with holes on bottom. Could I just put the smaller black bucket in the bigger one? Won’t the holes on bottom of black buckets allow wicking through soil? Assuming the right type of wickable soil course and maybe I need to put a few stones in to keep small bucket off the bottom? The way I see it there will be a 2 inch reservoir of water as needed? Maybe I am missing something! I might try it anyway. Experimentation is part of gardening.
Why didn't you do a drain open for extra water
How did you make the mulch plate?
'scallop the edges' 🙂
If the holes on the bottom of the dirt cups on flush with the bottom of the bucket wouldn't the weight of the soil prevent the water from being absorbed? In other words, the holes would be blocked???
80 dollars for ten of them. Lame as website . Click on the 3 horizontal lines symbol top right hand of introductory page Click Contact/ order And see if you can find the pictures of that green disc. Who is the designer of that website ? What a asz
How did you basil grow? Update on any plants growing in these buckets ?
homemade dirt plate: 4 plastic shot glasses with 2, 1/8th inch holes drilled in the bottom of each shot glass. Next, get a plastic plate and cut to size, slightly smaller than the circumference of the 5-gallon bucket. Next, cut holes in the plastic plate, slightly smaller than the circumference of the shot glasses' rim, add glue to the rim of the shot glasses, and press onto the corresponding holes in the lid, allow to dry. Done.
I like the dirt plate. Thx for reviewing. I'm going to go to the website. Really looking forward to your book. I have the land but not the time so really looking at the 5 gallon buckets as a way to streamline gardening for me. I've learned by trial and error that veggies need lots of water in containers and that's where I have failed in the past with my containers.
What happened to the fill tube? Is it optional? Is there an alternative way to fill it that I’m missing?
Excellent design…I love it. !
For 8 dollars, I could buy two 5 gallon buckets and make one. Especially how the item is just small plastic it would cost less than 50 cents to make. What a ripoff
Hello Epic Gardening: Would you be kind enough to comment on where (at what height) should one drill the drain hole? Meaning, should the 5-gallon bucket carry 1-gallon of water? If so I can just pour a gallon of water in the bucket and use the waterline as the "mark" for where to drill the hole? And should there be a gap between the top of the reservoir and the bottom of the soil, so that the Wicking is the only thing pulling the moisture?
so the base you're showing is like… something you can buy in a commercial pot. just FYI. we have similar here in Aus.
I would like to have the kit. Where can I order it?
Just paint the outside of the black bucket white, so it will reflect light from outside, and block it from inside at the same time.
A dressing of small stones or grit on top of the mulching plate would prevent the wind from lifting it out, breaking the plant/s and blowing away.
How do you water this shits when the water runs out?
If you want to level up. Start in spring with black buckets then when it gets hotter, put the black bucket in the white bucket. Doubles as extra water reserve if you set it right and reflects more light. I use to cook the shells in my fireplace but I found using less and not cooking them won't lime the soil as hard and the grit in the organic matter behaves like soil and slowly releases the right amount.
How do you refill the bucket?
Already a old system but a different way Gratsky grow system I like that system and using it myself for a couple off years now
I love the idea. If you have shallow rooted veggies could you sue shorter buckets and less soil?
Please post a link to where we can get these
Very good sir good idea good information I am ck kharar punjab India say
Would wicking tubes work for cannabis, I'm in Canada it's legal, mat try a few in this style just bigger
Result?
Cool design.
I often leave for vacation in summer. This could help the regular watering for my veggies while I'm away. No need to bother friends to come over and water any more. How long between watering with this set up using regular mulch?
This is really great. You're videos have helped me learn a lot, thanks!
Great idea but you run out of water at the bottom, the plant will die? So we must know how much water we need in advance
Hey, what about using smaller capacity bucket? Like 2 gal
I think the wicking cups would be better designed with holes on the side rather than the bottom which seems to be blocked when placing inside the bucket.
I my opinion, this system is not a true self watering pot. You still have to fill the reservoir with water. If you put a pan with a lip as high as the overflow hole under the bucket. Drill holes at the bottom of the bucket. Install a swamp cooler float valve and adjust the water level as high as the overflow drilled holes. Adapt a 1/4 drip hose from the float to a garden hose or water supply. Voila! you have a true self watering pot!
I just put empty jugs with a few holes drilled in the top and a few holes about an inch up from the bottom of the jug and put them down in the bottom of the bucket. The idea comes from gardening with Leon channel.
Ive seen people use some strips of cloth from the water hole up to the top of the pot through the dirt to wick water up.
90% of made-up names are Fred
👊👍
Hi I am new to growing and seen this I was looking for ( video )the black one you did can you please send me the video pls thanks
Nice “dove tail” that’s the term I’m sheet metal fabrication
Use a small plant pot for the wicking chamber. Make your own base. You can use swampy ground for your reservoir, just cut a hole and put the wicking chamber straight into the bottom of the bucket.
and the bigger question is how did he ma And the biggest question is how was that green thing made? It's a nice presentation don't get me wrong but it doesn't seem helpful to me if nobody knows where you can go to learn how to make it
I believe that if I cannot build it myself I won't give it to Seconds of time. I would not buy that green thing w The four attached cup looking thingies
great idea, I will make this too.
Does the constant moisture lead to root rot
Too much..
Does that mulch plate allow for water to come in or do u need to take it out to water the bucket if we haven’t had a lot of rain?
Did you forget the pipe?
Fell asleep after 2/3 minutes 🤯
where do you get the dirt plate?????
This video got me thinking. I have white 5G buckets with water overflow hole on side 2 inch from bottom and slightly smaller standard nursery black plastic buckets with holes on bottom. Could I just put the smaller black bucket in the bigger one? Won’t the holes on bottom of black buckets allow wicking through soil? Assuming the right type of wickable soil course and maybe I need to put a few stones in to keep small bucket off the bottom? The way I see it there will be a 2 inch reservoir of water as needed? Maybe I am missing something! I might try it anyway. Experimentation is part of gardening.
Why didn't you do a drain open for extra water
How did you make the mulch plate?
'scallop the edges' 🙂
If the holes on the bottom of the dirt cups on flush with the bottom of the bucket wouldn't the weight of the soil prevent the water from being absorbed? In other words, the holes would be blocked???
80 dollars for ten of them. Lame as website . Click on the 3 horizontal lines symbol top right hand of introductory page
Click Contact/ order
And see if you can find the pictures of that green disc.
Who is the designer of that website ? What a asz
How did you basil grow? Update on any plants growing in these buckets ?