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Urban Gardening

Urban Gardening

Back to Nature: 7 Easy Steps to a Self-Watering Garden

Published by communitypublishingabq@gmail.com on September 15, 2015 Respond

Create a Self-Watering Garden in 7 Easy Steps by the Gassman Dan Garduno

Here’s a simple self watering system for your individual garden plants while helping the environment and lessen the burden on our overcrowded landfills. Here’s how:

  1. Upcycle a used water bottle.
  2. Cut the bottom off.
  3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
  4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
  5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
  6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
  7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!
  • 1. Up-cycle a used water bottle.
    1. Up-cycle a used water bottle.
  • 2. Cut the bottom off.
    2. Cut the bottom off.
  • 3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
    3. Puncture a small hole into the bottle cap.
  • 4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
    4. Dig a hole next to your plant and near the roots.
  • 5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
    5. Submerge bottle into hole with cap side down.
  • 6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
    6. Fill dirt back around outside perimeter of bottle.
  • 7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!
    7. Fill bottle with water and let it drip into the soil and roots!

 

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The Glassman

Dan Garduno

“The Glassman” will be posting more blogs and ideas as well as hosting many workshops on Self-sustainability, urban farming/agriculture, windowsill gardening, composting, upcycling, self water planters  and grow beds, solar passive heating, collecting and purifying rain water, mass heaters and rocket stoves, papercrete, hemp cement, and so much more throughout 2015!

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