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Is there anything more frustrating than trying to figure out why a plant will not grow or bloom after lavishing hours and hours across many weeks? Borrowing from the real estate rule book, the three most important considerations for planning a gardening: location, location, location. Plants simply will not prosper if they are located in an area that is not in harmony with their nature, no matter how much the gardener does to conterract the effects of a bad spot. Gardeners become respectable only when they accept this natural law. After years I have achieved this modest status, even though I still try to round the corners on the rules. Lately though, something new has caught my attention: Container gardening and the miracle of adult diapers.

Not too long ago, my spouse spent a Sunday afternoon installing window boxes on the front of our house. I quickly filled these well-drained boxes with perfect soil and a beautiful assortment of blossoming flowers. It took me about 3 days to realize that I was engaged in conflict with the relentless afternoon sun. No mortal could posible keep up with the watering that these wndow boxes demanded. They were high and dry and even though the flowers were clearly designated for direct sunlight, I was never going to have more than dry thatch outside my windows unless I came up with a way to manage the humidity of the soil in these boxes.

Reluctantly, I dumped out the boxes and started over. I had heard something about using adult diapers, so I lined the inside of the window boxes with adult diapers, absorbent side facing up, before re-filling them with fresh soil and a new assortment of flowers. After hanging the re-potted boxes under the windows, I watered them well and waited to see if it would work.

It worked beautifully. Rainwater took care of most of the watering needs of these window boxes. Not only that, but the diapers absorbed water so well that the soil always stayed at near-perfect humidity. My flowers loved it. Adult diapers have a polymer inside them that can absorb fantastic amounts of water. In my window boxes, that moisture was gradually released back into the soil as the water in the soil evaporated. No need to worry about toxins either, the polymer in adult diapers is not toxic.

Of course, the genius of this effort should not be over- played. It certainly wouldnt raise an eyebrow at the garden club. Using diapers in the service of a garden will come as a natural for most gardeners: we’re all about manure, aren’t we?

Happy gardening to all of you this summer.