Best 9 Simple Self-Watering Planters to Reduce Gardeners Workload

Not everyone has time to maintain a garden, but many people still want to plant herbs and vegetables for their daily use. If you’re one of them, the thing you should do it to use self-watering planters. Does it sound like some advanced technology?

The fact, self-watering planters don’t need high technology at all. They are very simple but have a huge function—to reduce the workload of every gardener.

Wine bottle watering

You can use a bottle to water your planters. All you need to do is to fill the bottle with water. Make sure that there is a small hole in the bottle—small enough, so the water flows very slowly.

Put the bottle on your pot, with the hole is at the bottom. After the water in the bottle dry, you can fill it again.

This is a very simple method—you need almost no effort to make it. But, you need to pay attention to how much water flows at a time. Make sure the amount of water flows to your pot each cycle isn’t too much or too little.

Cool DIY Self-watering Planter using a wine bottle

DIY self watering planter from recycled wine bottles

Keep pots watered and happy while you’re away!

Vacation watering made simple

Self-watering planters pot reservoir

If you think placing a bottle on your pot isn’t aesthetically pleasing, you can try making planter with reservoir because it will be invisible.

How do self-watering planters work?

It’s easy. The idea of a reservoir is to provide water supply on your planters. You can buy the planter reservoir available on many gardening stores. The roots of the plants will absorb the water from the reservoir. To make it works, do the following steps.

• Place the reservoir at the bottom of your pot.
• Put the lid on top of the reservoir. The lid is also available in store. It has a hole for tube and smaller holes for the roots to absorb the water.
• Put the tube vertically. Make sure it fits perfectly with the tube hole.
• Put soil and fertilizer on top of the lid. Plant your herbs, vegetables, or flowers on it.
• Fill the reservoir by pouring the water into the tube. You can use a stick to measure whether the reservoir has enough water or not. Or, you can measure the water you pour into the reservoir every day.

Usually, there is a cap on top of the tube. Close the cap after you finish pouring water. If the surface of your pot is filled with the leaves of vegetables or herbs, make the tube visible before you start pouring water.

Self-Watering Pot Reservoirs

DIY self-watering planters pot

The principle of DIY self-watering pot is the same as reservoir you get from a store—to provide water under the soil. There is a variety of materials you can use for DIY self-watering pot, such as a soda pop bottle as a small planter, wooden box, container, or foam box.

How to make self-watering planters on your own is also easy. What you need is to provide a small space at the bottom of your planter. You can use plastic as a lid, for example, a plastic bowl you no longer use. Connect it to a tube and make small holes for roots.

DIY Self-Watering Seed Starter Pot Planter

Self-watering pot made from an old glass bottle

With the these self-watering planters, your job as a gardener becomes less, but the plants are watered enough to grow well.