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Top 5 Ways to Save Water when Container Gardening



John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ shares with you the top 5 ways to save water when container gardening. In this episode, you will discover John’s favorite ways to conserve and save water when you grow fruits and vegetables and other plants in pots.

You will learn some of the best products available today that will enable you to save more water when you are growing your food.

You will also learn some low cost tips to save one of the world’s most precious resources: Fresh water.

After watching this episode, you will be empowered to save water and grow healthy plants.

Referenced Links:

Aqueous and Oasis Commercial Pots:

Aquacamel Self Watering Pot:
http://www.aquacamel.com/

Nimbus Smart Self Watering Container:
http://www.nimbuspot.com

Drought Grid:
http://www.droughtgrid.com/

Growoya:
http://www.growoya.com/

Best place to purchase pot saucers:
http://www.monstergardens.com/

Be sure to use the discount code
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for a 5% discount on most items at monster gardens.

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43 Comments

  1. Chris Alexander

    Another good idea for pots in direct sun you can be sure and use light color pots or wrap black pots in something like burlap. This will keep the temperature down and slow the evaporation. Also mulch is helpful to keep surface evaporation to a minimum.

  2. UrbanGardenFarms

    Speaking of coconut coir (toward end of video), California Vermiculture (maker of WormGold Plus) is now offering a premium low-sodium coir!  Great product, and WAY better than any other coir I have used (and I have tried a bunch of brands). Typically I have had to continue using a peat/coir mix in my potting mix  with a small percentage of coir because of the high sodium in most coir I have used, but this stuff is GREAT. I now do a straight compost/coir mix, and am very happy with it.  Another great WormGold product!  Thanks for the vid John, I need to check out the saucers you mentioned for my Jackpots as well.

  4. Patrick Asmawidjaja

    Hi John, what is your thought on the rain gutter grow system from Larry Hall. This for me sounds like an efficiënt way of water retention. It's a closed system of which he has put netpods under containers with wicking material such as coconutcoir or peat. The containers are put in a straight line in raingutters, either an open or closed system. Check out his vids on yt. Thank you very much for your great video's. I am watching them for 2 years now. Cheers from the Netherlands, Patrick

  7. Chris

    Hey John what would you do in a flood situation. California is due for an earthquake and it could cause a flood. Do you have a evacuation plan? Do you prepare for a disaster situation?

  9. GrowingDownUnder

    At first I thought this was greenscreen because you looked small compared to the pots but this is just an illusion caused by perspective.

  10. GrowingDownUnder

    Have you tried a micro-waterweeper hose? they can be connected to extend the length and are flexible/easy to bend into shape around the garden beds. They are made from recycled car tires, water retention in soil also stops the need of watering as often. Mulching, coco coir in soil, water crystals, olla pots, planting at the base of slopes to catch water runoff, greywater systems to recycle water, water tanks, water catchments, self watering pots, etc..good ways of saving water.

  11. Ivy Mok

    Thanks for all the water-saving tips. I live in CA and having been trying ways to conserve as much water as we can. Can't wait for your next episode on non-glazed olla.

  12. Richard Sydenham

    Funney I have never seen drip irigasion in the forest were do the trees get there water
    may be you should try to cover your soil like in the forest in sted of wasting all this water and also washing all the nutrishen out of the soil

  14. michael kindscherm

    I build wick systems using plastic barrels-totes and a lot of different containers check you tube, many different designs
    they really save a lot of water too
    Some of the plants I have growing are bananas-oranges lemons – sweet potatoes coffee well It is unlimited.
    John is right about soil listen to him. Take his advice and you will be eating a lot more healthier

  16. Edward Hall

    The Oya is not just unglazed, it's unfired 🙂

    so make sure if you make one or buy something that looks like a good Oya, make sure it's not fired so the clay is still porous – great project for kids to make in art class … get some kick pottery wheel and pop em out every hour

  18. Jim S

    I use old dishes and platters under my pots that I get at thrift stores. Reuse!

  19. Lora LS

    I have pretty ollas made out of state and even more home made ollas. Both help me water in dry climate. Home made ollas are easy and take very little time.

  20. Ashish Sawant

    your videos are good but they too much long it becomes becomes boring see that you edit them and save others time too

  21. donna flores

    I use Olla's in my garden. I live in Southern California where we have water restrictions. They work fantastic! My veggies grew very well with them. You need to remember that they zone that the water penetrates is the diameter of the Olla, so it the Olla is 12 inches, the watering zone will be 12 inches beyond the Olla. I made my own Olla's by glueing two non-glazed ceramic pots together with a non-toxic glue. It reduced my water usage by 75%

  23. Aspen Fields Gardening

    Nice options for containers with a water reservoir. I have made a few of those cheaply out of plastic 55 gallon food safe drums. Works great. I get 2 large planters from each barrel at minimal cost compared to the commercial products.

  24. No Name

    In my larger pots I, also, throw some mulch on the top. It's crazy how much more water stays in the pot and doesn't evaporate when there's a mulch layer.

  26. Yee Vita

    Any stone slightly bigger than the top of the olla can be used to close off the water in the olla.

  31. Carlos Poor

    certainly a lot of commercial for flying saucers and other products , nothing new or interesting just BLA ,BLA, BLA

  35. Daniel Witzel

    Simple things like saucers go a long way. In my pots i fill the bottom with perlite up to the level the saucer would be then coco. Then I bottom feed until water stays in the saucer. Pretty much hempy without the waste. Thought about a lid around the saucer, but it drinks it up before any major evaporation occurs. I do this with Terra cotta, which does waste some water, but the evaporation the pot does keeps the roots cool in the central Texas heat

  36. Barry Anderson

    What about using a turkey baster baster to soak up excess water in the catch trays. It works like a siphon to allow the collection of over watering This can help with too much water and minimize root rot.It is time consuming but it can save water. You videos are informative this one was not to long. You could help shorten their length by not showing the opening the boxes.

  39. e Marie

    This is great, most of those fancy pots don’t come with much instructions I was never sure how they would work, thanks

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