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Home Depot 3 Tier Planter
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Follow these simple accomplish to actualize your own self- watering (technical term: subirrigated) pot.
Start with a thin-walled, close pot (at atomic 12 inches advanced and 16 inches high) that has no arising aperture but will be accessible to assignment into—like the artificial ones apparent actuality (Skörd planter, from $30; ikea.com). Assignment a 1/4-inch- advanced aperture into its side, about 4 inches up from the bottom.
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Take a abate artificial pot— almost 6 by 6 inches—and assignment 1/4-inch-wide holes, a few inches apart, into the abandon and bottom. Fill with potting soil, again centermost in the basal of the ample container. (If your ample pot is wide, like the one apparent aloft right, use two baby pots.)
Cut a disc of athletic artificial (we acclimated the lid of an old accumulator bin) to fit deeply in- ancillary the ample pot back sitting on top of the soil- abounding one. Assignment 1/4-inch holes, an inch apart, in the disc. Cut a 1-inch-wide aperture abreast the disc's edge, again abode the disc on the pot, central the ample container.
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Cut a breadth of 1-inch PVC aqueduct that's hardly best than the acme of the ample container. Cut the basal of the aqueduct at an bend (so it won't clog), and admit the aqueduct through the 1-inch aperture in the disc. Push aqueduct as far into the big pot as it will go.
Set your bulb on the artificial disc (next to the pipe). Fill in the amplitude about it with potting soil, alloyed with some controlled-release amoebic fertilizer, to 1 to 2 inches beneath the pot's rim. (Don't anguish if some clay avalanche through to the backlog below.)
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Cover the top of the clay with artificial sheeting, acid an X in it to let the bulb through and tucking it bottomward into the abandon of the pot. Hide the artificial with a band of bedrock or bark. Pour baptize bottomward the aqueduct until it flows from the arising hole. Refill as needed.
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