Yesterday we had our very first tomato from this years crop grown in our self watering bucket containers. It was an Early Girl with very tough skin. I was told that the toughness was due to the extreme heat we are having while another person said that is a characteristic of the Early Girls. Today we [...]
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Week Seven of our Patio Gardening
July 10th, 2011 
Mamma Blogga I have been quite pleased with the water savings since switching to self-watering containers this year. So far the only water I have used is rain water collected off of our roof into a 32 gallon garbage can. With the weather in the upper 80′s and mid 90′s these past few days, I have had [...]
Self-Watering Container Buckets ~ Week Six
June 30th, 2011 Mamma Blogga This is another update on my 2011 season using self-watering containers (litter buckets) that have no PVC fill tube. Instead, they have a 7/8″ fill/overflow hole at the top of the water reservoir. Near the end of the video I show how easy it is to fill them through the small hole. I used empty [...]
Week Five Update Using Self Watering Containers
June 17th, 2011 Mamma Blogga This morning I shot a quick video showing how well my tomatoes and peppers are doing in this years batch of self watering containers. Near the end of the video I show how easy it is to fill the water reservoir that does NOT require a PVC or copper tube in order to add more [...]
Four Weeks Into The 2011 Growing Season
June 12th, 2011 Mamma Blogga Our earliest plants were put in the self watering buckets back on May 11th, one month ago. The following photos were taken on June 9th but with plenty of warm weather and rain, the plants are even bigger than what you see in the photos. Even the little seedlings that I thought about tossing, but [...]
Plant And Moisture Status After Three Weeks
June 2nd, 2011 Mamma Blogga 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 [...]
Two Weeks Into 2011 Growing Season
May 27th, 2011 Mamma Blogga We took a few photos of our self watering litter buckets that were planted about two weeks ago to show you their progress. They spent several days back in the warmer garage at the beginning due to extremely low temperatures. The last couple of days have been very rainy so they have not used very [...]
Season Starts With Single Self-Watering Buckets
May 12th, 2011 Mamma Blogga With Chicago area weather up into the 80′s for a couple of days, it was the perfect time to get my self-watering bucket containers filled. I had made one self watering double-bucket that included a PVC fill tube extending into the lower bucket. The problem with that was it was taking twice as many buckets [...]
