Problem: do not have a watering can with holes small enough to water seedlings, without washing them away;
Problem: misters do not deliver enough water with the frequency that I can get round to using them;
SOLUTION: create a seedling waterer
Materials:
==>Small, mabe pint-size, take-out tub. Preferably one of those ones that you never can find the lid for.
==>1/16″ drill
Method
Drill 5 or so holes in a rosette pattern around the bottom of the tub. Now, hold it over your seedlings and pour water in from a pitcher or flask. Watch raindrop-sized water droplets fall onto your seedlings.
As near as I can tell, the only problem is that when the tub is less than half full, the water pressure is about equal to the surface tension over the holes, so the water doesn’t flow out. The workaround is to pour in more water.
Post is categorized “outdoors” even though it’s indoors, because the garden goes in that category.
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