Self watering tomato planter

I ve had a go at making my own self watering container for tomatoes, it's a experiment which I m hoping will save me some time, and maybe give me a bigger crop?
I did a lot of research on the web, but I was very unsure what to use as the wick between water reservoir and the soil, I ve gone for strips of an old work Tshirt ( it was a cotton polo shirt, if your wondering). I couldn't accept that using a soil based wick could be good for the plant, as it would constantly be soaking wet.
So the tomato plant was potted up over a week ago, all seems well ( so now I brave enough to tell the world)

I have been watering from the top to start with, but from now on it'll be watered down the pipe, and fingers crossed the tomato will help its self.

Paddy fields?

The allotment site has a slight decline.

We have two allotments, number 1 being on the slightly higher ground.

But number two is just a bit lower, so the bottom row off allotments

are suffering with a lot of standing water.

This photo ( excuse the finger) is of the plot next to mine, ours is not 

too bad, as we had rotovated just before the rains came, 

so the soil depth is still quite high.

Lots of standing water all around the bottom of the allotment site, 

7 hours after it had stopped raining.

The good news is when we do manage to get our main crop potatoes in, this is 

where they'll be going, they should like the extra water this allotment will give them.

BUTTS

We now have well over 2500 litres of rain water in our water butts, which is great news.
If I had been asked 4 weeks ago when we finished putting both of the EMPTY 1000 litre IBC
in there final position, if we would get them filled, I would have said
"not before christmas"
but here we are, there full!

Now for some sunshine?

1000 litre IBC on allotment 2 

Radish

Something is eating the radish leaves?

SUNSHINE

What a difference a day makes............... with just a few hours of sunshine today.
Basil, chillies & sweet peppers all germinated today, the sweet peppers
have taken nearly 30 days to show.

I am very happy about the lettuce which I spent a bit of time in to
planting the seeds, as they are so bloody small.
I used a pencil which I dipped in water to pick up individual
seeds.

We are still waiting to plant the main crop potatoes, finger crossed for a bit of fair weather.