Trying the Rain Gutter/Bucket System for Tomatoes | Food Production and Preservation | Forums

My sister has got me hooked on this water saving method of gardening. Basically you either dig a trench and line it with plastic, or you knock together a wood form and put a section of gutter in it. You cut a hole in your buckets the size of a red Solo cup, cut slashes into the cup to let water in, fit it into the hole, fill the cup with peat moss and then fill the bucket with soil. The bucket sits on top of the gutter and the red cup hangs down into the water as a wick. Just keep the gutter full and the tomatoes pull water as they need it. It is working like gangbusters! It sounds like a long process, but after you look at the pictures it only takes a few minutes to set these up. If your ground is hard, or you have to conserve water in the summer like we do, this works wonderfully!

Theres a facebook page for doing this where you can find all kinds of ideas.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/144745362329424/?fref=nf