Self-Wicking Tubs
ADVANTAGES
Requires much less water
Requires much less fertilizer
Easier weeding
Minimal to no bending required to harvest your produce
For individuals with limitations, the height and size of the tubs can allow accessibility to gardening
Gophers won’t be an issue!
A full garden can be set up in a day - plant most anything, including trees
Lasts for years
Portable
VIEW THE PHOTO GALLERY BELOW TO SEE WHAT WE’VE GROWN IN OUR WICKING TUBS.
SEE OUR 2020 DEMONSTRATION GARDEN
Watch this short video to see the wide variety of things we grow in wicking tubs as well as in the ground.
HOW TO BUILD A WICKING TUB
A good YouTube video for insight into the building process: TexasPrepper2 “Building (Gardening with Leon's) Wicking Tub” https://youtu.be/9guNoWP8_ls
Or visit the “Gardening with Leon” YouTube channel directly and search “wicking tub” https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDYs9sd2_BlLuWSiEr7TJQ
Halves of 55-gallon drums
2020 - Tomatoes and wildflowers
2021 - First try at a strawberry wicking tub
2020 - Wicking tubs with tomato plants that we donated to a handicapped gentleman who always wanted a garden
2020 - Wildflowers
2021 - You can even grow citrus trees!
2021 - Sweet potatoes climbing an arch
2020 - Corn
2020 - Demonstration garden
Sweet potatoes are especially easy to grow in wicking tubs
2021 - This new type of tub worked, although not as well as we hoped. We lost a large percentage of strawberry plants so we will be trying something different for 2022.
2021 - The newest invention - an arbor made from aluminum poles someone was getting rid of