An Independent Garden?

An independent garden???  For reals?  Yeah!  For reals!  If you live in an arid area like Colorado, clay pot irrigation may just be the ticket for you.  Jules Dervaes, (the farmer in the feature video for March's book), uses this method because he lives in an arid part of California.  Also it works if you are going to be away from your gardens for a few days.  This system allows your plants to water themselves when needed.

How is this done?  Bury a pot (like the one below) in your garden; the plants that need to be watered should be next to the pot.  Make sure the pot is surrounded with dirt all the way up to the mouth but not beyond.  Fill the pot with water, cover it and voila!  You now have plants that can live independently for a few days (how long the plants can sustain themselves depends on the size of both the pot and the plants in the garden.

This isn't the only method that will create an "independent" garden.  There are, in fact, many ways to do this. This just happened to be my personal favorite way.