mamachari

I have been travelling a lot this summer and of course my biggest concern is my plants. So before I left for Budapest, I went to a hardware store to see what kind of watering devices were available. Found some but they were kinda expensive for what they were. Seemed like most of these products use the principle of capillary action so I figured it should not be too difficult to build something similar myself. I looked around the store and found a soft plastic tube in the aquarium section. I bought 5 metres of it and played around with it. This is the final product↓

I first put the tube directly in the soil but too much water flew into the pot so I stuffed some tissue paper and tried again. It seemed to work better this way.

When I came home after two weeks, all my plants were doing well.

My tomato plants even had big and round tomatoes hanging in their branches.

I actually learned something useful in university…