What is a wicking bed/pot?
A wicking bed/pot is basically a fancy self watering pot, but it's a little different. The plants get the water from a reservoir of water from below, rather than being watered from above you add water directly to the reservoir. It is supposed to save you watering so often as the water doesn't evaporate from the top and the plants get what they need from beneath the earth. My thinking of this is a) I've got some styrofoam boxes sitting under the house that are just collecting cobwebs, and b) if I don't have to water the plants every day then that's a win for me! So for my upcycled styrofoam box, here was my rough plan.
- PVC Pipe + Elbow + a cap (to keep the mozzies out)
- Styrofoam box
- Gravel
- Small off-cut of poly Pipe
- Cloth divider (I just used weed mat, but shade cloth or geo fabric would probably work better)
- Good quality potting mix



