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Originally Posted by VitaVeggieMan
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.
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Oh, I see now!
If I had some extra buckets, I'd be willing to give it a shot, as long as I could find the right size colander/strainer/etc. to fit the bottom. But I don't, and the two I have, I use for carrying water.
Aren't the 5gal buckets from HD/Lowe a few bucks (unless you can buy them in "packs" or bulk), the plastic strainer/colander, a few bucks? That's probably the same price, if not more than the already made pots, unless you have a bunch of 5gal buckets sitting around, which I don't.
