Self-watering Container Blueprints

Download easy step-by-step instructions to build a self-watering container. Choose either the soil-wick or terry-cloth-wick model.

Whether you live in a dry climate or you lack the time you desire to consistantly take a watering can to your container garden (or rooftop) plants, this garden project is for you. Download these easy-to-follow instructions for how to build a self-watering container with a soil wick or a self-watering container with a terry-cloth wick.

Click for soil-wick instructions.

Click for terry-cloth-wick instructions.

To learn more about how to build self-watering containers in Laura Hill's "Wick It, Wick It Good" in the Summer 2010 issue of Urban Farm.

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Thanks for these, I'll be trying them out tomorrow!

Fruitcat, Los Angeles, CA
Posted: 3/25/2012 3:27:23 AM

I'll definitely be trying this out soon! I'm helping my sister start planting her first herbs and things to use in the kitchen and she doesn't have the greenest thumb in the world. She'll love it!

Paul, Mobile, AL
Posted: 3/22/2011 10:37:28 PM

Great idea!

kristin, upper sandusky, OH
Posted: 11/11/2010 3:58:27 PM

I like this idea, I will have to try it on my smaller pots, Thanks

Nils, Piedmont, MO
Posted: 6/20/2010 2:19:48 PM

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