Put a short chunk of 2×4 between the buckets when you stack them. It’ll be a cinch to pull them apart. — Dennis Rowe Make a ...

Susan Pillsbury has nine or 10 self-watering containers, each made from two five-gallon buckets ... expense was for the plastic buckets, which cost about $5 each, though they are often available ...

For these critters with exceptional self-control ... lead to higher crop yields than traditional gardening. Better yet, with a few 5-gallon buckets, you can set up your own hydroponic garden ...

Wicking beds and self-watering plant pots can produce veggies ... This creates a water-smart garden bed or pot that can go for up to a week without the reservoir needing to be filled up, while ...

Josh revisits his earliest gardening experiments with growing ... recycling sign on the base - it should be 1, 2, 4 or 5. A 20-litre bucket is a good size for larger plants such as tomatoes ...

Learn all about how to make DIY self watering planters for tomatoes and other vegetables and herbs, perfect for small-space gardening. The following is an excerpt from The Urban Homestead by Kelly ...

The 5-Gallon Bucket Book (Voyageur Press, 2015) contains over 60 ideas that help keep these buckets from ending up in landfills. With simple step-by-step instructions as well as parts lists and ...

Years ago, Dennis Wool gardened in commercially made, self-watering containers ... out to Walmart and found 18-gallon plastic storage containers for less than $5 and I have been using them every ...