Holiday season is around the corner and while many people are excited for a jaunt abroad, others are left worrying about how to ensure the plants they’ve carefully cared for will fare with no one to water them.
One TikTok user shared a clever hack using household items that keeps plants watered without someone needing to check up on them.TikTok user Justine Shannon – who aptly has a page called @selfcareplants – shared her hack that she nicknamed “the wick method”.
Justine’s way of keeping plants watered uses a wick, or string, and a large saucepan of water. She put thick pieces of string in a large pan of water and then attached each string to a plant’s soil.
Justine noted that to make sure the method works, the saucepan needs to be kept at a higher level than the plant itself.The method can be used on more than one plant, users just need to add extra string to the water.The string acts similarly to a straw with the water being sucked up straight into the plant’s soil.
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