Today we drilled a small 3/16″ hole in the top of our self-watering buckets so that we could monitor the moisture at the top of the soil to make sure they were all ‘wicking’ properly. We didn’t want to keep poking holes next to the plants themselves so we added the tiny holes elsewhere in the lids. Below is a photo of the reading we got from our only double bucket container with the PVC fill tube.

Moisture reading from buckets that haven't had additional water added for over a week.

We took a short video to show how much the plants have grown. Some were planted back on May 11th, others around the 19th, and some little seedlings left over from an egg carton just a few days ago. Everything is going quite well and we are very pleased that we don’t have to water them every night. Today’s newspaper said that due to the excessive rain we have had recently, that we are in for quite a bad mosquito season. All the more reason to not have to be outside watering plants!