Self Watering Containers

[Brent_in_Aurora]

I have made a bunch of self watering containers, mainly for tomatoes and peppers. I see that there are a lot of container farmers here so I thought that I would share the design. I have made them out of 55 gallon plastic drums, but you could use what you have, down to 5 gallon buckets with the same design.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Earth-Box-from-a-Plastic-Barrel/

Here is a pdf of a slightly different design. It is about 2MB.

http://www.seattleoil.com/Flyers/Earthbox.pdf

Here are some photos of my containers in use. The tomatoes are about 8 feet tall.

 

[Retrofit]

Brentinaurora. Il or Colorado? I'm in il just curious if we are neighbors.

 

[Brent_in_Aurora]

The Denver area of Colorado.