Best Self Watering Pot Design I've Seen Yet!, by Epic Gardening on YouTube. 10 min 17 s.
- Video length
- 10 min 17 s
- Time to do it
- Varies
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- See video
What this tutorial covers
- Explains the insert's central design point as the creator describes it: soil cups built into the plate serve both as supports for the water chamber and as the place where water enters the soil and wicks upward.
- Compares and contrasts the creator's own self-watering pot design with Fred of 5 Gallon Farm's design.
- The creator shows how he is going to plant this bucket out with basil.
Limits and exclusions
- The video covers the insert design, the design comparison and the basil planting plan, not a step-by-step build; the creator points viewers to a separate video for making a DIY self-watering container.
- The supplied description does not state reservoir capacity, refill intervals or how long the bucket waters plants between refills.
