7/30/2019 irrigação por aspersão em vasos de plantas http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/irrigacao-por-aspersao-em-vasos-de-plantas 1/19 vents shopping nightlife culture food & drink music fashion about Wednes-DIY… milk jug self -watering planter My spinach is growing up so fast! I worked on my apartment garden a bit more yesterday, and I made some bigger self- watering containers to hold smaller stuff like herbs for the kitchen (obviously, this will not work for tomatoes or eggplants or pumpkins). Like I said, I’m not very good at remembering to water plants (or remembering not to overwater plants), so self-watering containers are pretty much my ideal. Cotton strings (only use cotton, btw, synthetics don’t have the same wicking action) act as training - wheel roots, drawing water from the reservoir in the bottom half of the milk jug and distributing it evenly around the top half; all the forgetful gardener has to remember to do is occasionally make sure the reservoir isn’t out of water. I thought I’d try to illustrate the process of making these supremely useful and almost - free self-watering pots out of old milk jugs with pictures rather than words. Show, don’t tell! OK, here we go:
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7/30/2019 irrigação por aspersão em vasos de plantas
I worked on my apartment garden a bit more yesterday, and I made some bigger self-
watering containers to hold smaller stuff like herbs for the kitchen (obviously, this will
not work for tomatoes or eggplants or pumpkins).
Like I said, I’m not very good at remembering to water plants (or remembering not to
overwater plants), so self-watering containers are pretty much my ideal. Cotton strings
(only use cotton, btw, synthetics don’t have the same wicking action) act as training-
wheel roots, drawing water from the reservoir in the bottom half of the milk jug and
distributing it evenly around the top half; all the forgetful gardener has to remember todo is occasionally make sure the reservoir isn’t out of water.
I thought I’d try to illustrate the process of making these supremely useful and almost-
free self-watering pots out of old milk jugs with pictures rather than words. Show, don’t