Window Box Planter

Nice product; colour is a lot darker than the picture 0n your website. Not easy to assemble the self-watering mechanism, instructions for this and how you keep your plants alive is minimal and unclear; do you not use the watering mechanism for the first 12 weeks after you set the trough up? I would have expected better information and if you can provide the answer to my question, I would be grateful. I am now amending my rating to 3 stars; it should not be this difficult to set up and use an item like this!