Discover the innovative world of sustainable gardening with our step-by-step guide to creating a self-watering wicking garden ...

Josh revisits his earliest gardening experiments with growing in containers. Containers have the advantage of being portable if you’re renting, but also allowing you to move plants in and out of ...

Start vegetable container gardening for beginners with these DIY garden container ideas. Container gardening can be much easier to maintain than a conventional garden and thrives in almost any spot ...

Containers are great for those that are gardening in small spaces. Though there is the fear of not knowing when or how often to water them. This is why I started to make my own self-watering ...

Have you ever driven by someone’s home and noticed a lush, green raised garden bed over flowing with flowers and plants? Or have you seen the boxes placed on a friend’s patio and thought “how on Earth ...

Make a drainage hole - To allow excess water to escape from the DIY self-watering planter, drill a small hole into the side just underneath the top level of your wicking vessel. This means water can ...

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 ...

Here in the desert, I needed some last-minute photography for my new book on growing vegetables in drought, but it was too early. So I bought a bunch of self-watering containers to use in my unheated ...

In her viral video, Sara Tracy (@onagardenkick) demonstrated how to create a "self-watering herb garden." The Instagrammer used her "$7 terracotta pot to do the work of watering." For her first step, ...

If you’re a bit of a “black thumb” or have a vast collection of container gardens that take forever to water, self-watering containers can be your very best friend in the garden. One of the biggest ...

DIY web site Instructables details how to keep your plants healthy by building a self-watering planter from a couple of plastic IKEA storage boxes. The concept is simple. Two boxes are nested inside ...