by Ian Collins | Nov 20, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Wicking bed gardening in November 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 planted on Sept 1 2021. I wrote this on Oct 25 2021, so for...
by Ian Collins | Oct 21, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Wicking bed gardening – October 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 above...
by Ian Collins | Sep 30, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Wicking bed gardening in September 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 given more than a bunch. And that...
by Ian Collins | Sep 29, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Community Gardens – What to do and how to do it 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...
by Ian Collins | Sep 15, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Horticulture Projects, Landscape Projects, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
WaterUps Sub-Irrigation outperforms Drip Irrigation Drip irrigation is probably the most widely used system of irrigation in landscaping. So we thought we would see how wicking bed sub-irrigation using WaterUps compares. We look at both irrigation systems in terms of...
by Ian Collins | Sep 4, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Making it easier with wicking beds Community gardens are localized hubs for environmental change. They increase urban greenery and knowledge about healthy eating and provide relatively inexpensive food sources. By tackling the issue of food security at the source they...