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.

Spring is in full swing, and that means temperatures are rising and tank-tops, shorts, and flip-flops are the preferred attire. As highs reach steadily into the mid to upper 90s, any outdoor activity ...

In 2007 my New Years resolution was to help a few seniors get back to gardening. I resolved to help each grow a single tomato plant and, for once, I managed to keep my resolution. Some planted their ...

Self-watering planters are low-maintenance, and common DIY projects. What we like most about [Tommy]’s design is that it reuses empty jars to create self-watering planters. After all, jars are ...

Watering is a necessary chore, yet it doesn't need to be a challenge. Whether you love it or loathe it, you need to do it to keep plants alive, but you can relieve some of the pressure with ...

Sometimes ‘it’s not easy being green’, and a little help is needed to make our living space or office cubicle greener and cleaner without much maintenance. Enter the ‘techno-organic’ Grobalplanter, a ...

California-based studio Moss has developed a self-watering planter and lamp that lets users without any gardening experience grow a variety of plants indoors. Moss founders Strahinja Spasojević and ...

She takes the two black-and-white striped bowls home and gets right to work. She places a piece of painter's tape over the ...

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 ...

Two Scottish design engineers are preparing to a launch a flat pack self-watering plant pot. Andrew Flynn and Martin Keane believe their design will have a carbon footprint significantly lower than ...