by WaterUps | Feb 28, 2023 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, WaterUps
Cutting Watering Time by 90% A community garden in Sydney has cut its watering time from 11 hours a week to 1 hour a week thanks to WaterUps. Here’s how… Food Security – ala growing your own food – continues to be a focus point for many families and...
by Ian Collins | Jan 29, 2023 | Garden Wicking, WaterUps
The effectiveness of growing cacti in a wicking bed has long been something we have wanted to explore. In 2022 we had a conversation with a cacti breeder about WaterUps and thought that we would test the limits of wicking to seeing what would happen if...
by WaterUps | Oct 20, 2022 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, WaterUps
WaterUps used in The Calyx display at The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney WaterUps has been chosen for ground-level garden beds in The Calyx facility in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden, out of sight in their newest gardening project, Love Your Nature. A modern...
by WaterUps | Oct 1, 2022 | Accreditation, Garden Wicking, WaterUps
Water Night 22 urges us to do better at saving water WaterUps is proud to be a supporter of The Water Conservancy’s Water Night 22 and National Water Week 2022. Similar to Earth Hour, Water Night seeks to help Australians be more conscious of their water habits and...
by Ian Collins | Jan 25, 2022 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Raised beds, School & ELC Projects, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Men’s shed builds wicking beds with WaterUps system 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 new timber wicking beds. These beds measured...
by Ian Collins | Dec 5, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Garden Wicking, Landscape Projects, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Wicking bed roof garden in Hobart Award winning architect Ryan Strating’s Core Collective designed this amazing roof garden in Hobart, Tasmania. Given the exposed position and limited access for maintenance, Ryan wanted this garden to be largely able to look...