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Wicking beds and self-watering plant pots can produce veggies, herbs, and flowers with less water, and are simple enough to build yourself. Here's how to create one from a food-grade plastic barrel.

If you like having indoor plants around the house but you’ve killed every plant from aloe to ZZ, a self-watering planter might just be the solution for you. Self-watering planters can be a great ...

Don’t quite have the green thumb you were hoping for? The Melphoe self-watering hanging planter will immediately improve the health of your hanging plants. Using a simple, nested design that is both ...

Self-watering planters are great for people who are always forgetting to water their plants, but you cannot forget to keep the reservoir from emptying because it will cause the wicking system to dry ...

Some people are blessed to have plenty of garden space and fertile, nutritious soil. For the rest of us, there are containers. Container gardens allow for limitless versatility, allowing you to grow ...

As it turns out, we aren't imagining things: With drought hitting many parts of the country, garden-supply companies say sales of self-waterers have jumped as much as 30 percent this season. Because ...

If you've ever struggled to stay on top of watering your houseplants, chances are you've bought (or considered buying) a self-watering planter. They're convenient and time-saving, allowing you to go ...

Collaborative do-it-yourself web site Instructables describes a simple method for creating self-watering garden planters. All you need is a milk jug, scissors, planting foam, and soil. Okay, so some ...