Let's talk today about self-watering pots. You can turn any pot, even an aesthetic

one, into a self-watering pod.

And before we begin, I just want to apologize over the last couple months.

The audio on this podcast has not been good, and I'm well aware of that.

Both my podcasting mic and my audio recorder have broken on me and I'm struggling to get some new ones in.

So we're dealing with some phone audio, but hey, I figure the information at its core

is more powerful than it's sounding absolutely perfect. And I hope that's the case.

Now, I've done this many times with five gallon buckets which are a very

utilitarian look something I personally prefer but of course many of you and

sometimes even myself really do like something that looks nice. of you

and sometimes even myself really do like something that looks nice. So let's say you were to grab a four or five gallon

aesthetic looking pot and you want to turn it into a self-watering planter.

Well, really what you have to do is you have to

create a false bottom in that pot somehow. So there's a lot of different ways to

achieve this. Number one you can take a five gallon bucket lid and cut it to the inside

diameter of that pot so it gets stuck right about two to three to four or five inches

above the bottom of that pot. Now what I like to do is I'll take a little piece of 3 inch PVC,

cut that in half so there's a little bit of a platform for it to sit on.

That platform is useful because of course the water reservoir has to sit down below.

Now you do have to cut a hole in whatever you use to create that barrier because the

water needs some way of getting to the soil and some mechanism of getting to the soil.

The mechanism I prefer to use is an old t-shirt or an old shop rag, something that's

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