The problem is the coconut lined baskets hang on the railing and the dry Colorado air goes right through them taking all water with it pulling moisture from them like wicks. You can spend all day watering.
The second year heavy duty liners were fashioned for them and that worked well as trough without any draining at all until they flooded for weeks on end.
The third attempt uses the sodium polyacrylate in disposable diapers, the same material marketed for gardeners, but here in a form that may be more useful to line the inside of these coconut liners to hold moisture a little bit longer and stop dripping on the bulged out commercial windows below.
Buying these things was weird. I didn't know how many I will need. I don't know if this inexpensive brand will do the same thing as the ones in the videos. I looked for my size that would be small, then thought, "Why are you doing that, Stupid? Maximize the area."
Although I saw two videos I still had no idea what to expect from these. It's basically a very large pad to fit around the nether regions of a very large man. All the rest is goofy keep-the-pad-on paper underwear with a weird paper elastic to hold snug around a fat man's upper legs, and for my purposes all that extra stuff can go away. The absorbent material fill the whole pad, not just the blue patch at the center of the pad.
It soaked the whole quart without spilling a drop. It could take more. It really is awesome.
It is slightly too short and slightly too fat.
The top layer of paper material peels off easily once soaked revealing cottony substance that can be spread to the ends of the coconut liner and partially up the sides.
The first layer of potting soil also has this similar mixed in and that is run up the sides too beyond this white, but the bulk that fill the center is regular potting soil with vermiculite. The plants are already planted they're all ordinary nursery annuals with morning glory seeds mixed throughout.
