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I bought some less expensive potting soil mix this year and regret it. It might be OK for established plants, but it was not a good choice for seed starting. Too many big chucks of woody stuff in the potting soil mix I bought. I think last year I used Miracle-Gro potting mix and really liked...

I noticed that you have a number of plant starts in those red solo cups sitting inside a dish pan. Do you punch a hole(s) in the solo cups and bottom water them? Have you ever tried the double solo cup method? Just wondering because your plants look so good to me.

I understand the importance of using what you already have. For those who have to go out and buy a PVC pipe for a fill tube, they might as well buy a larger pipe which would make refills easier and faster with a garden hose. Especially if they end up making lots of these self-wicking buckets...

If you have your 5-gallon self-wicking planter outside, you need some kind of overflow hole in the side of the bucket. I don't remember you mentioning that, so forgive me if you did. Anyways, if you don't have that overflow hole in the planter, then you risk drowning the plants in your bucket...

I am signing on to this thread because it's something that I have been thinking about for a while as well. There are a few things that I can add to the discussion that might be helpful to others thinking about 5-gallon self-wicking buckets/pots. First of all, Harbor Freight has free 5-gallon...