by Ian Collins | Feb 21, 2022 | Community Gardens, WaterUps Featured, WaterUps® Videos
WaterUps provides optimal watering for fast-growth tomatoes. The Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Annual Tomato Festival was held virtually this year due to CoVid. It was hosted by ABC Gardening Australia’s Costa Georgiadis and Phil Pettit, Head of Community...
by Ian Collins | Jan 25, 2022 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Raised beds, School & ELC Projects, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 25th January 2021 by Ian Collins The Murraylands Community Men’s Shed has been building timber wicking beds using the WaterUps system since October 2020. Their latest venture has been to build 24 1.6m x 0.8m wicking beds as part of the redevelopment of...
by Ian Collins | Nov 20, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 20 November 2021 by Eric Sturman Growing Tomatoes in a WaterUps® Square Planter How long can I go between filling my reservoir in my WaterUps® wicking planters? It all depends on what’s in it. I have been growing two tomatoes in a Square Planter that I...
by Ian Collins | Oct 21, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 29th September 2021 by Eric Sturman It’s been a few weeks since planting your tomatoes in your Square Planter and they are starting to show their true leaves and get a bit of height. The stem has thickened up and there are side shoots starting to emerge from...
by Ian Collins | Sep 30, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 29th September 2021 by Eric Sturman Time for spring planting A not too wise man once said, “Last month of lockdown, first month of spring, if you’re not planting now, you are running late.” Wise words. Stop being sentimental about that ragged old celery, It’s...
by Ian Collins | Sep 29, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 2nd October 2021 by Tia Ngawhika After our recent post on this topic, some of our readers asked us to go into more detail about how to set up and run a community garden. In this post we will look at various community garden models from small verge gardens to...