Setting a pot in shallow water until the surface is moist lets you know that all the soil in the pot is moist. If a pot has dried, the soil often shrinks away from the edge of the pot, and when you water from the top, the water runs down the gap and out the bottom. This can fool you into thinking you have watered sufficiently, while actually the soil remains almost completely dry. Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada On 23-Jul-09, at 12:01 PM, Justin Smith wrote: > I was wondering if there was any inherent benefit to this type of > watering vs watering from above? >