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Making the Food Less Travelled: A Self-Watering Planter (Volume 1)
Making the Food Less Travelled A SelfWatering Planter - Volume 1 Author:Mark Schultz Self-watering planters allow anyone with a few square feet of fairly level ground to grow their own produce, making them ideal for the Urban Homesteader. They also use very little water, put the garden bed at a convenient tabletop height,virtually eliminate weeding, are amazingly productive, and best of all are self-tending for days or even week... more »s at a time. In this first volume of the Making the Food Less Travelled series, the author explains the benefits of an automated self-watering planter as well as offering detailed construction plans to build your own 8' planter, how to use mini float valves to automate your own self-watering planters, and even how to make simple self-watering planters from plastic buckets.« less