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A few photos from my work of making self watering seed starting containers out of 591mL Coke bottles.
| |  2. I put a second cotton string through just so I could double up on the wick action. |
 3. Here's a higher view of the previous image. |  4. Then I fished the string through the cap (I had already drilled about seven holes in the cap, two for the string and five others for drainage). |
 5. Then I screwed the cap back on. |  6. I added some very damp soil, coiled the first string, added more damp soil and then here you can see the second string coiled. On top of this was added more soil. |
 7. Here's a different angle of the previous photo. |  8. And this is what the final product looks like. I have not yet added water to the reservoir at the bottom because over night tonight and through the day tomorrow I want the soil to drain out a little since I had overwatered the soil before filling these little containers. |
 9. So here are the three I made tonight. You'll notice that they all have dirty water in their reservoir, this is from the dripping of the overdamp soil coming through the extra holes I drilled into the lids. |  10. And here is a front view of the previous image. |
 11. Four days later the reservoirs were empty so I needed to modify these seed starting containers to water them. First thing I did was cut a small slit in the side of the reservoir part and stuck a straw through it. |  12. I then taped the straw up against the bottle to both seal the joint where the straw meets the bottle and to straighten the straw so it is easier to water. |
 13. I'm not sure if this is really necessary, but I stuffed some kleenex tissue into the top of each straw to prevent evaporation from coming out of the straw. It could be as time goes on and I have more of these I'll skip this step. |
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