Patio Ideas & Designs: Why Everyone Is in Love with Self Water Planters

With the huge popularity that gardening has gained in the past few years both as a hobby as well as a way to grow your own vegetables, more and more people are looking for a way to keep up with their busy schedules while maintaining their gardens vivid and colourful. Luckily, in the modern world we live in, new inventions are introduced every single day and the good news in the world of gardening is the great invention of the self water planter. This self-watering raised bed with built-in reservoirs allows individuals to grow not only stunning flowers with low maintenance, but also tasty and healthy fruit and vegetables.

A self watering planter is a contained raised bed that comes with a wick system (located at the bottom of the planter) that moves water from the water reservoir to the soil, watering the plants whenever they need it. It is a well known fact that if a plant receives inadequate amounts of water or air circulation, it will most likely die. With a self water planter this will be no problem as it comes with a aeration screen that maintains the reservoir separate from the soil and roots which prevents them from becoming waterlogged. These planters offer the ultimate convenience – you might as well go on a vacation and leave your plants on their own – the self-watering system will ensure they receive the needed amount of water so they thrive.

Still hesitant whether you should buy a self water planter? Read on, you will fall in love with these gardening pieces of art.

Saves you trouble and time

If you have a busy schedule or tend to travel often, planting your flowers or vegetables in a traditional planter is a rookie mistake. This means you will constantly need to take care of their watering needs, because if you don’t, they will dry out and eventually die. Luckily, that is not the case with the self watering planter. Once you notice that the basin is low on water, just add more water in it and it will do its miracle. Depending on how much moist your plants need and how big is your basin, this could be done only once a week or even rarer.

No under or over watering

Unless you are an experienced gardener who precisely knows how much water his plants need, giving them the right amount of water is just a guessing game. The problem with over watering is that the plants cannot grow strong deep roots if the water is near the surface of the planter. With the self water planter, your plants will get just the right amount of moisture they need.

Retention of nutrients

With traditional planters, the nutrients present in the soil slowly leak through the drainage holes. Self watering containers on the other hand, create a system where all of the wasted nutrients through drainage are brought back to the plants.

Conservation of water

With standard planters, water loss due evaporation and/or drainage is inevitable. In addition, it often takes more water to properly moisten the soil that has been dried out. Self water containers ensure that only a minor amount of water is lost due to evaporation as well as that the soil has a constant level of moisture.