DIY: How To Make A Watering Can

[@bonkugon]

I love that you show how to make each can and how they pour. I don't know why this video doesn't have more likes but I appreciate a thorough DIY! Thank you for the variety of "cans" so that we can help save the environment :)

[@swanwhite1332]

cool! This will save my money. Watering cans are expensive in here, India, plus they are few in designs, and I find it better to make your own. Thanks for your ideas, I have just made 1,5 litre plastic bottle can. Also works fine (I do not have a drill, I made holes with the kitchen knife, as a true woman, lol).

[@WayneMeador]

Swan White Thats good to hear!! Another thing that works is heating up a needle, and melting through the lid. A+ for ingenuity!!

[@skyes7604]

Swan White true we don't get a enough variety of watering cans in india and if we get most of them are too big and broken

[@johnward5404]

was going to buy one on amazon and glad i didnt now... made one easily with a nail and a liter bottle of water. THANKS!

[@WayneMeador]

I’m glad it was helpful!! :)

[@ajplfc1276]

Just got into gardening and trying to be cheap with it lol thanks for this buddy

[@mojiki257]

Cool video, helped me a lot and I could reuse that one bottle I didn't know what to do with, thanks! Also, anyone trying out home farming in quarantine and came here looking for good tools?

[@Sheila6325]

I already did this with a small bottle, for my newly planted seeds, but I really like the large ones you showed too, that way I get to control the flow. Thank you, really good idea.

[@komalverma178]

Wow....great idea to recycle the cans. I will be making one or two or more for my plants.

[@nov51947]

Great idea! Try this too: Use a Jumbo paper clip, pliers, and a propane torch. Open the clip up, heat the wire with the torch and push it through the top in the pattern of you choice. The paper clip is much smaller than your 1/16" drill and easier to control with the pliers rather than with the heavy drill. I'm going to give this a try for my tiny seedling sprouts.

[@WayneMeador]

That's actually a great idea and something that I had in mind to try this year and probably will as it will even be better for seedlings. That said, the laundry detergent one that I made in the video works really well for seedlings already (maybe just slightly heavy but) and is the only way I watered my seedlings after I made it. It's nice because I'd just fill it up with pond water and then water the plants and so on. Thanks for the idea and advice, I'm going to try it! :-)

[@reddevil9554]

I only have a balcony area, not a garden and was going to buy a small watering can for my plants out there so could water them all at once. I feel like an idiot now, I already have a houseful of watering cans. :D

[@kickinitwithmydawg]

Looks like you gotta have a big hand to use #4. I like #3.Thank you for making this. I was going to buy yet another watering can. Now I'm never buying another can again. Thank you.

[@WayneMeador]

Thanks for watching and commenting! It's my pleasure. :)

[@Sheila6325]

I sure will, and I'm just getting the material together to start my fall seeds too. Will let you know when it's done. I just love great ideas, and why I didn't think of the larger bottles is beyond me, so see, all videos help us out a lot, so sharing even the small items, is a very good thing. Bless

[@aratakitheoneandoniitto]

This is perfect. Thank you so much!

[@Sheila6325]

Actually I used what is called a Lavette Bottle, a Perineal Irrigation Bottle used mostly for hospital patients. It has MANY uses for me. I used it to help wash my bedridden husband's hair, as a substitute for toilet paper, a test to see how it worked, and after seeing a video on watering seeds, I tried it out, and it worked Great. I'll make a video of it for you. It already has 3 very small holes in it, and can be very gentle, or as strong as you like. I also just ordered a couple more too.

[@kathyleenbullard3223]

Thanks! What a great video. Definitely better than spending money on a watering can.

[@jimsmij]

I used a gallon ice tea jug, but I put a 1/2 inch hole at the top of the handle that I can cover & uncover with my thumb to control air flow into the jug which controls the water flow out. No need to squeeze the jug to get water out. Just a suggestion you might want to try too.

[@WayneMeador]

This is the best idea I've heard of all week Jim! Great one...I'm liking this, maybe I'll remake a video on the topic. :)

[@vns6935]

Thanks for some great ideas!!! Very practical. Have subscribed. 👍 Since I don't have a drill, would nails of different diameter, heated on a kitchen gas flame work as well for making the holes?

[@elizabethm193]

I saw another you tuber drill an additional hole right above the handle for a smoother flow of water

[@NycBeauty]

Excellent ❗️

[@noorpuri8331]

Excellent idea

[@JoLuffiroSauce]

VEry nice!!!! save money and efficient!! thanks for sharing!!

[@WayneMeador]

My pleasure, thank you VERY much!!!!

[@Lumberman2011]

Nice video Wayne! That really got into different types and patterns. Great idea and that cold one at the end of the vid was a nice touch to wrap up the vid LOL I save the larger biggest ones for storage when power goes out to flush toliets. I want to get water collection system going and get big containers or barrels for use in my garden, raised high and use gravity for pressure. Take care buddy!!

[@llapajbajram4458]

Lumberman2011

[@iaintookthatbb6599]

Thank you!

[@Gizmojan]

Great ideas! I'm going to keep all my empty plastic containers now! I wonder if I can fill the containers and just leave it by the plants, so I don't have to hold the container?

[@WayneMeador]

Gizmojan - Sounds like an incredible idea! Let me know how it works out. :)

[@visualsnow6233]

Thank you 😊

[@michaelwilson1960]

Great idea! THX!

[@andew8922]

Very clever man

[@perfectwafflemedia]

Good video! Thank you.

[@WayneMeador]

You bet, thank you!

[@Lumberman2011]

You may be on to something with ending with a beer LOL. That water collection thing is on my bucket list for sure.Craigslist is a good place to go on that.... I will be doing a garden update vid, if my lens doesn't fog up because of the hot humid weather we are having LOL Take care bro!!

[@repilus]

Cool

[@mrgardenprojects1783]

That's a great video. I've subscribed to your channel. Thanks for sharing.

[@WayneMeador]

MR GARDEN PROJECTS - Thank you so much....I really appreciate your support, for commenting, and subscribing....it means a lot to me. :)

[@edscoto4351]

very good!

[@WayneMeador]

Thank YOU so much!

[@alanpeterson2160]

How do those apple juice bottles hold up to daily use ? And the square handles on the top ? My clear plastic orange juice bottle lasted one hour before the squeezing wore a hole through one corner. So I'm looking at alternatives.

[@Rosangela161]

Good idea.

[@WayneMeador]

Rosa Angela Thanks!

[@alanfernandes77]

Awesome

[@jennifersumagui5736]

Awesome idea i will sub to you

[@arabeliever245]

thank you

[@stealthypenguin857]

Nice

[@TomPalissade]

No need to use a drill bit, a safety pin and a candle to burn it is making tiny holes 👍🏻

[@repilus]

Nice vid though

[@mikek5631]

If you drill an air hole you wouldn't need to squeeze.

[@hulkh3489]

I was thinking the same but the positioning of the air holes might be tricky

[@truejoy3821]

I just made one. Times are hard ..I can’t spend $20 on a watering container lol

[@komalverma178]

These cans will save water too

[@sireeshachodavarapu800]

Not everyone has drillers

[@dtriniboss]

This video has a good water can building demonstration: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foGlpn2QhJmorqc

[@IndianaNature]

Great video. but motts apple juice is from china.

[@WayneMeador]

Thanks for watching and the support IndianaNature! We (she) were buying that for the girls last year and was the only thing their mom would get them which is why I had a supply of bottles. If you watch my other videos, you'll learn that we went through a breakup. My choice is to always, where possible, use locally produced products and/or at least use products that are made in the USA. Thanks again. ps. I grew up in Indiana.

[@suhailthaivalappil]

😏😏😏

[@stevepethel6843]

Multiple lids?😂

[@repilus]

No dis i disliked LOOL