Creating the self-watering garden container, AKA Earthbox:

With a self-watering garden container you won’t have to water the plants as much. Just fill the reservoir with water and it will be wicked up through soil-filled pond filter to your plants’ roots. In theory, it should maintain the optimum moisture in the soil, save water, and make container gardening (indoors and out) really low-maintenance. I’ve also included some tips on how many plants you can grow in the same pot depending on their type! Enjoy

Things you’ll need to make your self watering container

Prepare to saw the garden pot right down to the center of the bottom section

Example : Garden Pot is cut

Fitting the Garden pot

Mark the self watering garden container

Hold the rim of the garden pot in marked position, and turn it face down

Cut the circle, place the pot in the container, and the pond filter into the circle

Cut off the extra overlap in the rim

Image: Self-Watering Garden Container, Cut off rim

Insert the rubber pipe into the a hole in the pot, to reach the water reservoir

Drill an overflow hole

Drink a beer, you’re done

Which Crop to Grow

Most veg that grows in a backyard will do well as a container plants.  Carrots, Cucumber, Green beans, Lettuce, Parsley, Pepper, Radishes, Spinach & tomatoes are amongst the most popular

Fertilization

Conatiner plants need to be fertilized more then field-grown plants because they have less soil to provide the nutrients they need. A soluble fertilizer applied once a week is recommended while watering. I suggest using a 15-30-15 oe 20-20-20

Growing Tomatos

1. Dont crowd the seedling, give them room to branch out.
2. Provide lots of light. luckly for me I live in Malta, if you live in a location that lacks light you may consider having growing lights running at 14-18 hours at a time.
3. put a fan on you seedlings, I thought that this whould not work but it did. To develop strong stems you’ll need to train them, provide a breeze for a couple of minutes a day
4. Preheat the soil, more heat means that you’ll harvest sooner
5. Once at 3 inch high. remove bottom leavs, so the plant will grow faster
6. romove the suckers that develop at the joint of the plant – they just take the energy away
7. Water them regularly when plants are developing. Also, feed the tomatos a lot more once they are blossoming

Pot Size

Container Size for vegetables

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