Project: DIY Self-Watering Planter
By Chuck Cage
A few years back a friend coined a term for my apartment balcony full of dead plants: the mortaretum. Why? I’m really and truly bad about remembering to water houseplants. So when I saw this project over on Instructables, I couldn’t help but share.
It’s a simple concept: Water wicks up from gap between two stacked storage containers via a few bits of string keeping the soil moist. You need only top off the gap every so often. Hell, even I can probably manage that.
Best of all, you only need a couple of Ikea storage containers (or if you’re not an Ikeaite, any containers that leave a suitable gap when stacked), some string, and a Swiss Army knife.
Self-Watering Mini-Garden [Instructables]
August 8th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Those stackable Rubbermaid & Ikea storage bins can also be used to make simple ebb&flow hydroponic systems, just add an aquarium pump.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Cool Idea, but I kind of like this one better: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/how_to_make_plants_talk_t.html
August 8th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
What a cool idea.
Thank you for posting this.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Make & Instructables rule!