How To Use A Self-Watering Planter

One of the recent trend in container gardening is the use of self watering planters. They have their own planter reservoir, that is to keep the soil of the plants still moisturized or the plants still receives the right amount of water that they needed to grow even though you leave them at home the whole day. It only means that having the self watering planters at home, you are assured that your plants will not immediately wither and die and you can focus more on your other work. A self watering planter holds a reservoir of water and when the soil dries out it draws up more water until it is satisfied. Over watering is not a problem and the plants will always have moisture as long as the reservoir is filled with water.

Another advantage of having these planter reservoir, is that you can add fertilizer to the water itself. This will give food to the plants throughout the growing season and so improve the quality of plant growth. Although there is a tiny bit of disadvantage in having planter reservoir but still the most important thing is that there is a solution to it. Due to the stagnant water in your self watering planter there will be mosquitoes breeding in the water but what you can do to avoid this is to just add a couple of oil to the water every time you refill the planter reservoir. Also decide whether you want to water your plants from the top or from the bottom. If you don't do that and you are watering from the top and you are using the watering reservoir at the bottom your plants will simply drown.

Using the planter reservoir is just easy and simple just always remember that when you water the plants from the top you can use it as a normal pot because the water will just drain out to the reservoir, so please give it time to use all of the water in the reservoir before you start to water from the top again. Another is watering from the bottom it means that you will have to use the self watering reservoir and not directly pour the water into the plants. You will have to refill the water reservoir of your planter once or twice a week or when the reservoir runs out of water. The number of times you refill the reservoir depends on the planter and the type of plant you are using. It is better to water from the bottom rather than from the top because the built-in water reservoir is designed to move the water upwards through the soil and when the soil is dry the moisture will continually move upwards to deliver enough water to the plants.