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I've been taking my plants to the kitchen to water/drain 1-2 pots at a time but....I may or may not have purchased 10 more plants yesterday and that's a lot of back and forth. They're mostly in my foyer which is a half level down.

I've been thinking about getting something I can keep in the garage (next to the foyer) and quickly set up/disassemble like this:

Anyone have any other suggestions or ideas?

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I have some for the larger plants but I've got some hanging plants and a lot of small ones with tiny trays that only give you so much leeway on overfilling. Also no guarantee all the soil will be soaked!

I don't have a ton of experience but I have a 100% success rate this way. I'm not quite at the experimentation phase of plantkeeping, I just want to stick with what I know works