by Ian Collins | May 22, 2021 | Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Horticulture Projects, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Wicking bed gardening in May Wicking beds for indoor plants This blog will focus on how wicking systems can be used to water your indoor plants With the WaterUps square planter on the market for a few months now, I thought I would try something a little different and...
by Ian Collins | May 20, 2021 | Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Raised beds, Residential Projects, School & ELC Projects, School Gardens
Angus assembles and plants out his new WaterUps® square planter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQPABGzbdjo&t=9sVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Waterups Single Cell Planter Box (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQPABGzbdjo&t=9s) The next...
by Ian Collins | May 8, 2021 | Garden Wicking, Landscape Projects, Residential Projects, WaterUps
The science of wicking Often the first question we are asked by people who are not familiar with wicking is, “how does it work?” Well, we usually explain that it is based on a scientific principle called capillary rise. This was first observed by Leonardo da Vinci and...
by Ian Collins | Apr 13, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Horticulture Projects, Landscape Projects, Residential Projects, School & ELC Projects, School Gardens, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 13th Apr 2021 by Eric Sturman Sowing the seeds to grow the greens in your wicking bed Now, what are the advantages of sowing seeds over just buying seedlings? While seedlings save you about 4 to 6 weeks in time, you are significantly restricted in what...
by Ian Collins | Apr 5, 2021 | Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Landscape Projects, Raised beds, Residential Projects, School & ELC Projects, School Gardens, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
This year Eric Sturman from WaterUps® joined Costa, and other roaming reporters for the Sydney Edible Garden Trail. Due to COVID restriction and concerns gardeners opened their gardens for both a physical and virtual trail. The aim of ‘the trail’ is to encourage and...
by Ian Collins | Mar 22, 2021 | Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Landscape Projects, Residential Projects, School & ELC Projects, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
As part of World Water Day, WaterUps® was invited by TasWater to participate in their ‘Water Source’ event last Saturday at The Edible Precinct in Evans Street, Macquarie Point, Hobart. ‘Water...