Wicking Garden Beds Adelaide

We sell new timber vegetable crates for raised garden beds with a diy wicking bed kit using waterups wicking cells.

Wicking garden beds adelaide. Wicking beds there has been a lot of interest lately in wicking beds. She s lucky enough to get them from a local market gardener for just 15 each. I got one last october and so far have been very happy with it especially after the stinking hot summer we had. Recycled timber construction to insulate and protect your garden s roots from adelaide s long dry summers.

The diagram shows a simple and popular wicking bed system with an added worm feeder. The yellow shown in the diagram is a layer of geotextile which acts as a mild filtration barrier between the water and the soil. Download our free guide. The fugly wood wicking bed is the perfect low maintenace solution for urban farmers green thumbed renters or anyone with a small space that needs a bit of greenery.

If you are going to put in raised beds i would recommend you look at a wicking bed. 1 407 likes 47 talking about this 4 were here. All the liners and pipes used are food safe. Adelaide hills vegie gardens.

Wicking beds are an especially great system to use in community gardens because they save people from driving every day during hot weeks to water their beds. They can be placed close to the house without risk of flooding your basement since the water is contained in the bed. Our raised garden beds are ideal and can be purpose built to become wicking beds see our webpage for more info. Large wicking garden bed 399 00 waterups oasis wicking bed kit 395 00 small wicking garden bed 329 00 patio wicking bed 299 00 mini wicking bed 249 00 foodcube 399 00 large standard raised garden bed.

Decide on your base. You can build a wicking bed out of any sort of container but sophie likes to use big old wooden vegetable crates. Our timber garden beds are new untreated solid pine and will last 10 years. They re around 120 centimetres wide and long and a little over 70 centimetres high.

The timber comes from sustainably grown pine plantations in south australia. Gravel or coarse stone must be added to the blue water reservoir area. 50cm x 50cm x 50cm ready to go no assembly required all you need to do is add scoria soil plants and water other features include. We ve created a super handy printable raised garden bed planting calendar for adelaide so that you can easily schedule planting your vegetables with your new dingo raised garden bed.