Hi Fellow Gardeners,
Do any of you have this issue - you have hanging plants on your front porch, it's a pain to water them so you install drip irrigation tubing, it works great but then that leads to leakage on your porch floor?

I have Boston ferns on my front porch and they like a lot of water, so I like to leave the drip tubing on for a long time to make them happy, but then my porch floor gets wet. To make matters worse I have my ferns in coconut fiber baskets, they are absolutely beautiful but, well, they leak. That being said, even a regular pot with a built-in saucer would leak based on the amount of water they want. The sun hits them pretty hard in the mornings, between that and all the wind they dry out easily. I used to take them down, saturate them and rehang but they are too big and heavy for that now.

The reason I am asking is because a year ago I developed a solution to this problem and it works really well, so I am going to market it, but I just wanted to get a feel ahead of time of how many people actually have this problem, it can't be just me, lol. For the past year I have been able to thoroughly saturate my ferns and have not had any water on my floor - life is good! So, I just wanted to reach out and see what you all think of this and get your feedback.

Thanks so much
Karen

Water will always drip out of hanging plants. I prefer to take them down and give them a good soaking and let them drain before rehanging them. However, if your ferns are so large that it is not easy to take them down and rehang them, then maybe they could be divided? Or, maybe you should find a new spot for them. If the water that dripped out was clear and left no stains, it would not be an issue, but I find that the water is usually brownish. You could always hose off the porch after they finish dripping.

Not sure what else to suggest. Sorry. Let us know what you decided.