Plants do not generally fare well in my home. In fact, I've never met a plant I didn't kill. I would love to have a home accented with oxygen emitting greenery, if only I could remember to water them. Lechuza has answered my flora filled dreams with their attractive self watering planters. Self-Watering Planters by Lechuza
Plants do not generally fare well in my home. In fact, I've never met a plant I didn't kill. I would love to have a home accented with oxygen emitting greenery, if only I could remember to water them. Lechuza has answered my flora filled dreams with their attractive self watering planters.
With distractions reaching a fever pitch over the next month due to non-stop holiday parties, a bevy of out of town guests, exhaustive searches for the perfect gift and the stresses of travel, watering your plants might inadvertently fall to the bottom of your to do list. Lechuza's durable plastic planter contains a sub irrigation system that will continue to keep your plants watered even if you forget.
The Emmo Home website explains Lechuza's unique sub-irrigation system:
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Whether you travel for several days at a time or simply have trouble finding time to care for your plants, this planter is ready to be your own personal plant sitter. In fact, the Delta can take care of your plants for multiple weeks and give them just the right amounts of water and nutrients they need for optimal growth.Planters are available from Emmo Home in a variety of sizes (windowsill, table top and two floor types) and in eight different stylish colors. They range in price from $34.95 to $189.90.
Just fill up the planter water reservoir and your plant will become self sufficient! The integrated water level indicator will tell you reliably when it is time to refill the reservoir.
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Ikea has nice self watering planters too. And they are really inexpensive. Just an FYI.
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Yeah, this has several excellent and inexpensive DIY solutions... why buy another single-tasky thing?
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help with a DIY solution? i have been having terrible luck with my plants. i have no idea where to start so any advice would be great.
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Check out instructables- there are a lot of good ideas.
In the great pedantic tradition of AT I'd have to say these planters are more properly called "sub-irrigation" planters, because you still do have to put the water in them, however the reservior in the bottom makes it a much better distribution system.
There are drawbacks in a lot of designs- so far it seems like I've seen really attractive and really practical sub-irrigation planters, but not both. Functionwise: the little bobbing water level measures are not all that great for assessing how much water the plants need- especially as lots of these planters come with chintzy levels which will break. If there's no overflow hole (the Ikea planters have both of these problems) you can overfill and rot your plants using this setup. Containers where you can see the water level work better for this reason (I made my own and set it up such that I fill the reservior with a clear tube with a line that shows me when to stop watering. I also hacked the ikea planter by drilling an over flow hole- when it's too full the water can drain and make sure the roots don't sit in water.)
Subirrigation is a really great watering method. It doesn't leach out nutrients, it provides a more consistent water supply and it's conservation friendly, but its not foolproof and you can still under and overwater, which of course isn't what manufacturers sell these designs to you as.
I think the cleverest subirrigation planter out there is the Wetpot- its manages to be both attractive and completely practical in solving the "how do I tell if there is water in there" question. I'd love to see more style variants on the subirrigation planter that are practical for the gardener. This one is very pretty, and if the bobbin is well designed, it might be more user friendly than other popular variants.
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