Allow for Drainage in Your Self Watering Containers

Posted on Aug 5 2009 - 3:00am by Mike Lieberman

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I learned a valuable lesson in gardening (and life) this week, it doesn’t pay to be lazy.

A few weeks ago, I transferred my celery into a new self watering container and didn’t poke a hole to allow for water drainage.

Sure enough with all of the rain that we’ve been getting here, the bucket became nearly submerged under water. The celery was getting water logged and starting to die off. Celery drinks a lot of water, but not that much.

I had to poke a drainage hole in the container to allow the water to drain out and remove the dead ribs. I’m hoping that I caught this early enough and am able to prolong the life of them.

In this video, I show the water in the container and how I poke the hole to drain. My grandmother also tries to make her way on camera (again), but I cut her off. Gotta keep her ego in check 🙂

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ieAXunaaM

7 Comments so far. Feel free to join this conversation.

AnitaAvalos August 5, 2009 at 7:25 am -

How you gonna do Gramms like that?? 🙂 Hope the celery survive.
Mike Lieberman August 5, 2009 at 9:03 am -

Gotta keep her ego in check
songgrrl August 7, 2009 at 11:15 am -

Awwwe…give your grandma the camera time! She's funny! I have no more of my own anymore so I get a kick out of her! She seems a bit feisty…
Mike Lieberman August 8, 2009 at 7:12 am -

Feisty is an understatement. She'll get more time. I'll have to ration it out though 🙂
Mike Lieberman August 8, 2009 at 2:12 pm -

Feisty is an understatement. She'll get more time. I'll have to ration it out though 🙂
Meemsnyc February 22, 2011 at 1:26 am -

Poor gram! LOL
Mike Lieberman February 22, 2011 at 3:01 am -

Hhaa. She’s a big girl and got it taken care of.