Saucers/trays to hold water under containers?

tnpeppers · June 15, 2013

I have an off-beat request I would like to throw out there...I grow in containers. For three-gallon pots, I use 1020 trays to hold two pots; then I 'water from below' as needed...I also have five-gallon pastry buckets sitting in larger plastic trays (a la drywall trays) that I also fill with water as needed. I seem to be getting 'earth box' results with tomatoes grown in this fashion, and I would like to try planting more in this manner. I get plenty of pastry buckets and such from my local grocery store, but now I am looking for some sort of 'cost effective' (read 'cheap') watering tray that I can set buckets in...the 1020 are just a bit too narrow...such a tray needs to be twelve inches by twelve inches, and roughly four inches deep. Drywall trays are great, but too large and certainly not cost effective. We're talking 60 -100 such trays. Any ideas?

June 15, 2013	#1
tnpeppers Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Zone 6 Posts: 365	Saucers/trays to hold water under containers? I have an off-beat request I would like to throw out there...I grow in containers. For three-gallon pots, I use 1020 trays to hold two pots; then I 'water from below' as needed...I also have five-gallon pastry buckets sitting in larger plastic trays (a la drywall trays) that I also fill with water as needed. I seem to be getting 'earth box' results with tomatoes grown in this fashion, and I would like to try planting more in this manner. I get plenty of pastry buckets and such from my local grocery store, but now I am looking for some sort of 'cost effective' (read 'cheap') watering tray that I can set buckets in...the 1020 are just a bit too narrow...such a tray needs to be twelve inches by twelve inches, and roughly four inches deep. Drywall trays are great, but too large and certainly not cost effective. We're talking 60 -100 such trays. Any ideas?