Provide my wife the infrastructure she needs to garden effectively. I am excellent at developing systems and awful at gardening, and she is awful at developing systems but excellent at gardening.
Sub irrigated planters are another option. They’re equally effective, but they take the human error factor of setting and adjusting watering rates out of the equation.
This is the site I used to make mine and it turned out well:
Provide my wife the infrastructure she needs to garden effectively. I am excellent at developing systems and awful at gardening, and she is awful at developing systems but excellent at gardening.
Drip irrigation is very satisfying, very cheap, and very effective if you have a mains water hookup.
Sub irrigated planters are another option. They’re equally effective, but they take the human error factor of setting and adjusting watering rates out of the equation.
This is the site I used to make mine and it turned out well:
https://albopepper.com/sips.php
Note that he says not to put perennial plants in it. This may be true for areas that get a very deep freeze, but my perennials did great in zone 8.