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Originally Posted by tlintx
Be sure you have good soil to reservoir contact. I built some using round large pots and round inverted nursery pots, and there just wasn't enough soil low enough around the edges to wick properly.
When I rebuild, I'll use smaller inner pots, or a true wick.
I made another out of a square box and upside down nursery flats, and that worked much better.
Tl
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I just set up some round pots with inverted plastic colanders that I got at the Dollar Store (literally for $1 each). We'll see how that goes.
Last year, I used upside-down nursery flats in a window-box type setup (for my herbs and strawberries). That worked fine, except the window boxes had pre-drilled holes that we tried to plug. They leaked (and I'll never use a container with pre-drilled holes again!). But the upside-down flats worked just fine.