Quote:
Originally Posted by casserole
I think you could buy a plastic" pasta strainer" from the dollar store and get the same result
|
I wondered the same thing. That is essentially the design of the single-bucket sub-irrigating "eBucket" described in the Self-contained Box Garden forum over at Dave's Garden. They use a large plastic colander inverted in the bottom of a 5-gallon bucket. It uses a drainage pipe (straw) to keep an aeration chamber in the top part of the colander, while the bottom serves as a water chamber and the planting mix around the outside edge of the colander wicks water up to the rest of the grow media and plant. The colander isn't as pointy as the Plant Warrior Holey Cone, but it provides the same type of aeration to the plants roots.
Here's a picture and a crude drawing to help clarify.