How to Build the BEST Self Wicking Bucket! DIY Self Watering 5 Gallon Bucket
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- If you want to enjoy gardening without the hassle of watering every day then you have to try these DIY self wicking containers.
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I so appreciate the fact that you are kind enough to show folks like myself how to start gardening on a small scale with no land to plant in. I have a patio and I’ve got buckets so I’m ready to roll!
Me too!!! Awesomeness and I can't wait to see how it turns out!
That potting mix is soooo important just remember that. You'll want to get some peat. Somthing like black Kow compost and a potting soil of your choice. Mix it 1:1:1 and get some perlite and mix it up. Heck just look up video of making your own potting mix.
Me too🥰
my only issue with this is the amount of (non-food-grade) plastic you'll have up against your roots, with the intense sun and temp changes breaking down into micro-plastics for toxic trace-element uptake..
@@pobedapatsfanyou buy food grade buckets and lowes and home base is that type if plastic.
I can't understand for the life of me how Dutch got to 100K before you? Your video was so inspiring this morning! Thank you for keeping it real! Stay safe!
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This is a great help for those in wheelchairs who can't get into the garden. My husband loves his "garden" on our driveway . Last year was tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, onions, and strawberries. Maybe this will decrease our water bill this year. Wal-Mart also carries these timers.
Hi Daniel and Arms Family. My wife and I have a farm in the Philippines and everyone there has Moringa (Malungay in Philippines) trees. The leaves are used in soups and also fed to pigs. It is nutrient and protein rich. I put Moringa powder in my bullet proof coffee as well as juices and smoothies. Super good for you. You will probably have to transplant it as they are a tree and will outgrow the bucket fairly quickly. God Bless. ~Mike and Ester~
For people asking why in a tub & not in the ground, I can answer one of reasons is that the area that gets the most sun on my property is the driveway. We've had vegetable plants growing in regular pots on our driveway for years. We have a lot of big trees on the property that shade the property at different times of day. With the driveway, there are no trees and no shade, so we've always put big pots of vegetables on the driveway.
My garden needs deer fencing. Rather than buy more fencing I can place containers in the isles and just move them if I need to get to those beds
Also, you can raise tubs so your back gets less strain...I put totes on old lawn chairs...work well. Paint them up in pretty colors before you plant...beautiful!!
Daniel what a kind thing you did for Dutch .... he is one happy guy . Your a real Gentleman with a lovely family . Best wishes from me in the UK 🇬🇧
Hi, Dan. When we lived in Turkey, we lived in an apartment ( four kids, my husband and I) and all we had was a balcony. I was able to use pots to grow, tomatoes and peppers. I used broken Terra Cotta pot pieces in the bottom of the pots to let air flow and to keep the soil from compacting. It worked pretty well but I think this system would have even been better. Thanks for sharing it.
Hi, Arms Family!
i just "discovered"your You Tube videos. Thank you So much! i love watching them, learning things to pass on to my grown kids (human).
i homesteaded many years ago and miss the life. thank you, ALL of you, for inviting me in. Sincerely,
Lori J. Maine/Wisconsin/Tennessee
My dogfood comes in a fabric nearly the same as the landscape fabric and I save the bags and use them. They work great for this and all kinds of gardening uses. Of course my dog uses a large bag of food being a St. Bernard, but ask your neighbors, they may have bags they don't want, and they are useful, even for cutting up and sewing into produce bags!
What brand of dog food is that?
I did my first self wicking tub last week. Planted some Swiss Chard seeds I was excited they are already coming up. Thank you and Leon for the information on these tubs.
Greeting from New Zealand! Wow! Definately the best video I have seen on making self-wicking containers. In most videos it looks terrifyingly complex, not mention expensive, yet as you have just shown, it is really so simple, easy, and affordable to do. Thank for such a fab video 😊
I grew a lot of veggies in sub-irrigating solid plastic buckets similar to these that you show here. Had some good years with them and some not-so-good years. In a solid plastic bucket in full sun, the soil temperatures can get quite high, and even with air space in the bottom, the plants can get quite root-bound.
I ended up switching to porous grow bags in sub-irrigating tubs with great success. The plants really thrive when the soil gets more air and is able to sink off much of the heat from the sun.
I was glad to see this video, and I encourage further development with variations in sub-irrigating containers. These will allow people to grow food ANYWHERE there is full sun, such as apartment balconies, apartment/office building rooftops, etc.
Love the 5 gallon pail idea. I have already started them and they are doing great in my greenhouse. I am also going to plant cucumbers in some also. Great video. Thank you.
Thank u for taking the time to share these bucket and tub container gardens. Leon is also a great place to learn about setting up these bucket planters for sure. Hi to the family hope all of u have a great day.
These were first used for pot 😂 known as a “hempy bucket” I used expanded clay and gravel in the bottom up to the level of the drain hole. Then whatever soil medium/fertilizer to the top.
You don’t really need the coffee can. You should see explosive growth once the tap root reaches down into the reservoir area
Why not? Where's your video? I want to hear more. This is better than Leo's idea with all those bottles etc. I'm going to try this this year.
Leon is adorable. Thanks for introducing us to him.
That is a great video. I to have plenty of land to plant. My problem is, too many ground squirrels and my goats, and free range chickens, eat everything up if they happen get into the garden area. So I have set up several of the buckets in my back yard where nothing can reach them.
Can you do a video on what/how/when to "feed" the plants? In the other video, you said to feed daily? With what? how? THANK YOU for the amazing content! My fave channel!
Good informative video. Thanks Dan. Hope the meet and greet is a huge success for y'all.
So essentially, the coffee can is a cistern. Cool concept. Thanks for the info.
Awesome video!!! What I like about your channel is your always teaching by sharing info with us and of course occasionally making fun of your stalker 😂😂. Thank you for the time you spend with us. God bless you and be safe
Great video. You're right, people are hungry for this information and it is liberating to learn how to feed yourself. Thank you!!!!
Well I'll be! I never new you could get a timer for water.. Cool thanks
I know it adds to the cost of the buckets, but I put a cap on my fill tube. I only had to water once a week until it got really hot, because the plant's transpiration rate wasn't enough to empty the water reservoir in 2 or 3 days. For the first couple of waterings, I used small clay pots with lids as ollas. I watered deep like you do, but the ollas kept the top soil from drying out. I love your video.
I use a digital timer to fill the reservoirs of my self watering containers on my deck. I water once a season to get the wick started and then it is all automatic.
I drill a hole about 3.5 inches from bottom and fill with wood chips to 4 inches a layer of news paper then potting soil with wood chips on top. No pipe,just water on top.
Hi Daniel! Thank you for sharing just want to add what a thoughtful gift you sent to Dutch! BTW I sub to Leon after watching your video ...
You can timers a your local hardware store. I did and works great saves me time. I use it with soaking hose strung through the garden.
Perfect! Was looking at this modification for my home!
I feel so much better when I take moringa, it's pretty incredible. Sure is spendy, though. I got some seeds and I really want to plant them, but I'm not sure what to do in the winter. I have an old livestock trailer that doesn't have any cover on top and the wood is pretty much gone. I could throw some poly over it and call that a green house?
I'm near Tahlequah, and I'd like to see how yours grow not far away.
Automatic irrigation is the MAIN secret to success growing here in Oklahoma. It used to take me an hour a day to water my garden when the heat kicked up starting in June. With my irrigation kit, it takes me exactly none minutes a day.
I saw people use burlap sacks in Africa with multiple holes. They grew enough food to feed their family with extra to sell. This was where there was no grass. All dry.
Sounds like a precursor to potato grow bags.
I am so glad I have the right tools ...I have a whole box of drill bits like that
Daniel this will work for me for grabbing stuff from the back porch. Thank you.
Thank you.. I enjoy your videos... pretty simple for me.. I just wanted to share an easier way I found to put the holes in the buckets - I saw a wood burner used to make the holes in the plastic. For me safer... even with having to plug it in.... Thank you again.. Ruth
Soil is blocking the drain hole just like it would in a sink, equals no flow.
Natureboy Bryon - you need a piece of filtering material, like landscape fabric, etc. inside the pot to cover the drain hole & keep it open. btw, Did you line the container with the fabric?
Also, put at least one other drain hole at the right level.
Daniel has another self-watering video using the fabric.
I did some of these... figure in Texas its gonna work well cuz our summers are usually brutal. But now we got like a solid week of rain! I found the buckets got water logged fast .... I've had to move them up under a tree to shield them some and move them back when theres some sun. It's a real pain. They are growing great though
You can buy 55 gallon plastic barrels (hdpe) and cut them in half. Works great, they last for many years and hold 25+ gallons of dirt. Its like a small garden and you can get them for $8 - 10 each. Very cheap.
First, someone may have already suggested this, as a truck driver I will voice to text but I don't get a lot of chance to read all the good comments! Anyway if someone is having trouble cutting the whole in a plastic container that is tight enough to keep dirt from falling into their water well a good feed of kitchen quality caulking or even hot glue around your PVC pipe and against your plastic would just give enough barrier to keep the dirt from falling in.
I am loving this idea of the self-wicking pots, I have a lot of plants at home which of course means someone else is doing my watering part of the time. With two different people watering it's easy to have over watering or underwatering going on. Looks to me like if I start transitioning the most sensitive of my plants into self-wicking containers, maybe we can avoid that problem.
Second, I had a question on what Leon said about feeding your plants. Commented to the effect of they want fed everyday that you eat. Which makes sense on the one hand but I'm assuming that he's not adding fertilizer everyday I'm assuming he means what he's using is time release, or that you want to make sure the nutrients/fertilizer in the soil aren't depleted at any given time, so to stay on top of your timing on that? Thanks for all the good info you're sharing!
Ok. Im going to use your wicking method this summer. I'll let you know how it turns out. I've watched Leon and many others but I think your plan will be the best.
Or, any old plant pot paired with an oversized saucer you keep full of water. Or fill with water daily or every other day and let osmosis do the work.
Yes you still get an algae build-up but in my design the algae remains on the outside, in the saucer and away from the soil.
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m also in OK. Will be trying this with my tomatoes and peppers. Can’t wait to see how it goes.
I am glad I stumbled across this video. You made look easy enough to try! Thank you and I will check the link too.
Try this earlier in the year with Animal tubs like you have. Put a pepper plant in it. It stayed to wet. And never grew. Leaves turned yellow. Guess it needs to be summer for this to work properly.
Bro I Love the Gardening videos I’m growing my own gardeners as well in the city I have strawberries collard greens turnips green peppers habanero peppers beans and I might do a few more things but I love the garden videos!
That's good knowledge... Your Garden tunnel setting looks great...
Keep a check on weep holes once in awhile they get plugged and can't drain.
u can cook the moringa leaves in coconut milk and chicken so delicious
Thanks!! for the 5 gallon bucket demo. I like it. Going to give it a try. Will let you know how it works.
Rob Bob in Australia has some good videos on wicking beds. You don't have to be confined to containers. Maybe you guys could do a collaborative.💚🌱
Do you ever worry about leaching plastics? Doing a lot of research on better ways to grow crops and read many articles on the problems with some plastics. They indicate some plastics, like HDPE/MDPE and LDPE ( Polyethylene - PE) are more suitable as they are used in contact with food and water.
Hi Dan. Or ask your local restaurant for any pickle buckets they don't want. For those that don't know, yes Patricia, pickles do come in 5 gallon buckets.
Put a tube in weep hole on bucket and have a container under it so you can pour the fertilized water back on top. Better than wasting it.
Sams Club in Flagstaff AZ, charge for their buckets. Corporate stores again are getting greedy. What are they going to do with the buckets? Trash them? Consumers upcycle them.
Caroline Russell last year I got some for free, this year year, Sam’s Club charged me $2 each.
I love Leon, he's is a wonderful Godly man
I think you should seal the sides of the hole where the pipe goes in, because eventually dirt will probably go in.
Thanks for sharing! @ArmsFamilyHomestead
That is a nice plant I like all of your plants my parakeet has two babies 🐦🐦🐦🐦
Thank you for another video on these. I love this idea 💡 ❤️
I tried the water timer and my water bill quadrupled. Love it though.
Rose, I wonder if you can catch rainwater in a big drum and use a slump pump to pump out the water for your plants? I got a slump pump a few years ago to save on water bill....
Point a drill at your palm to push an oversized drill bit thru an unsupported plastic coffee container. What could go wrong? Next video: How to put a chain saw on a stick as a DIY weed wacker to clear land. :D Drills work great on a supported surface, in reverse for brittle plastics less pliable than a Homer bucket so it doesn't snap big pieces off. But so does a soldering iron, which is faster, no raw edges.
When do you start planting? Do you start with the seed or a seedling? Would love a video on this is when to start, this is how to plant it
🥰Just watched Leon, can’t wait to try this method😊
Call me crazy but I enjoy planting in the soil, seeing the worms and birds. Thanks for the info. 😊
you can put worms in your pots also.
I have nealy beach sand for a yard. I wonder if I buried A half of a 55 gal plastic drum in the ground, and made a wicking system to hold water close to the bottom of my plants. Would that work. I have tried amending the soil. In the summer. I can water every day. And it is bone dry before I can get back to watering the sametime the next day.. The water just wicks away into the surrounding sand.
The “rain gutter self watering system” by Larry Hall could cut your labor by 35% -50% , here’s the general description: 5 gal. plastic bucket with air prune holes drilled in sides (1 1/2”- 2”l (air pruning makes phenomenal growth with little root binding), 3” net cup hole in bottom, 3” net cup, line inside with heavy duty landscape cloth , use your own dirt mix, get plastic rain gutters from Lowe’s, fasten 2x4’s to long sides of gutter, sit planted buckets on 2x4’s over rain gutter. At one end mount a float (Larry sells the whole kit). Guttering comes 10’ L but you can fasten them together for the length you want with a sleeve for square ends of gutters. 30-50’ long runs are better because of the need for a float for keeping the water level constant in the guttering. You can daisy chain the guttering runs together with switch backs but precise canting & strategic water dams are needed to hold the water at proper level & flow. The other problem that’s surfaced is the plague of mosquito hatching in the gutters, the fix I use is heavy landscape cloth folded under at edges & stapled to the top of the 2x4’s, then cut an “x” where you want the pots to sit allowing the 3” net pot to rest below it. This does a good job of precluding mosquitoes & larvae entering & hatching. After initial set up, there is no daily water hauling or worries abt missing their daily drink, The easiest set up is straight run, side by side with a PVC header to supply each run, the float system is abt $10-12 each. Questions? Go to TH-cam @ RainGutter System by Larry Hall, he has several candid vids abt his “RainGutter Self Watering product . Good Luck, Shalom! PS : you can use garden mesh bags sold on eBay ( cheap) instead of drilling the air prune holes in a 5 gal bucket, Walmart shopping bags are polyester & make perfect air pruners. I’ve switched to mesh bags & dc’ed the buckets bc when done with the bag, they can be cleaned & folded for storage, buckets take way to much space to store ( imagine storing 500 buckets, even nesting them is prohibitive over 5).
Q: What about putting shredded hardwood up to the hole in the bottom of the bucket - in lieu of potting soil?...Thanks!
4:36 It's beacuse you don't have a Dewalt
Or Ridgid
My question is, when you put the pipe through the container, would the air escape through the pipe and not push out unto the plant?
Rock science ! Very basic ! I will do it ! Yes!
I use old chik litter and cow poo dirt from cow barn
For those of us not near OK, does Leon give resources for mail order commercial liner and potting soil? I hope he is delivering his greenhouses in the midst of this plandemic... anxious to get one.
Daniel that was very cool what you did for Dutch. friendship is the world. I met both of you at OKC fair grounds and you both told me to start a channel. well i did couple months ago . i will be at the meet and great May 5th.
great video pal. thanks
Awesome, thank you, I have a balcony so off I go. 😀
Dutch sent me over I sub to your channel great video, glad you explain the way to make these.👍👍
Im gonna do this, Update works awesome !
Did you ever do a follow up on these(the buckets not the tubs)?
My local feed store sells the tubs for $5. If I had the soil mix I’d buy a couple. Not to mention we may move next year.
I built 3 of these and may do another. I just drove around and picked up buckets off the side of the road. Nothing like FR99.
Maybe I’ll post a video of my buckets and track their progress.
That was very helpful Daniel. Thanks.
Do you have a video that shows how to build the irrigation system and how to connect the hose to it for the timed waterings? 🤔
Thanks so much sir very good advice I well try it makes easy for me God bless you
Great video... could I use a pvc pipe that would fit the opening of a water gallon jug?
yes, many different concepts to try.
Thank you for the video 👍👍
how about filling the bottom of the bucket with some big rough stuff, pine bark, wood chips. sure it will eventually decompose but thats good stuff too. Are you gonna keep the same soil in the bucket year after year, top it off with new and refertilize.
Love your catch, clean, and cook vids. I used to do a lot of fishin with my dad all saltwater tho. Is there a limit to how many paddle fish you can keep each year? Looks like Houston can wipe out an entire fillet by himself. I didn't see what Dutch did to cook the Morels.
I built a self wicking, true air pruning tube. Drilled 2” holes around tube with bottom of holes all about 4” above bottom of tube. 3 rows of holes to the top. Lined tub with landscape fabric and filled with potting mix. No cans or bottles needed in bottom.
Watered from top until water came out all around at bottom of bottom holes.
End result is water reservoir at bottom and air from sides for true root pruning.
Squash doing fine for now, will see how it grows.
You’ll love ur moringa !! They have dwarf moringas also 💜💜 moringa tea for women helps all our systems
just checking on you and your family to see if you5/21 right...from the storm pass through ..Oklahoma.5/21/2019.
Good video, BTW if I am still in bed at 6 AM, that probably means I am in the hospital!
Cool...like that concept.going to try it.
Excellent
Great video on the wicking bucket! So, dumb question here. You water the plant by pouring water into the PVC pipe, correct? If so, doesn't that remove the air pocket created by the coffee container? Thanks.
Great video Daniel.
Enjoyed the video, excellent content.
I wish you luck, if we don't add peat. How about we add only red soil? Does this system work
Drilling holes like that is super dangerous. Freaked me out! I would never point a drill towards my hand or arm, etc. Just saying...
lol I thought I was going to watch a farmer die!
It's a wide drill bit not a box knife.
Sir, once the plant grows tall having roots grown till bottom of the container at water level, will get ROOT ROT?
Sir, would you by chance have an update or review on this method. Anything you would change?
How NOT to use a drill!! Had me wincing.. safety first, never toward you
ian day I was thinking the SAME thing! Not sure how many children watch gardening videos, but I hope to God they don’t think this is “best practices.” Otherwise great info, though.
You too? I was cringing.
Great video! Thank you for sharing!
Learned something today. Thanks so much!
I grew in these 5 gallon wicking buckets last year and it worked great! I am curious if anyone has advice on how to prep the soil again for a new growing season. Do I need to dump it all out and change out the soil or add amendments? Or can I dress the top with some good compost/manure and replant? I kept them mulched pretty deep and under cover through the winter and watered them every once in a while so the soil didn’t get hydrophobic.