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After the initial potting of your indoor and outdoor plants, keeping them alive becomes your most important – and potentially most stressful – task. Knowing when and how much water to give plants is ...

Self-watering planters are thought to be a wet-it-and-forget-it solution for plant lovers with a busy schedule. But do they really provide a healthy habitat in which your indoor greenery can thrive?

One of my daily chores is watering all the outdoor potted herbs around my lab, especially in the backyard. Since I hate doing the same job every day, I decided to build a simple device to take care of ...