by admin | 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 admin | 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 admin | 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...
by admin | Sep 15, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Horticulture Projects, Landscape Projects, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 15th September 2021 by Eric Sturman and Ian Collins 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...
by admin | Sep 4, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 3rd September 2021 by Ian Collins and Tia Ngawhika 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...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Community Gardens, Garden Wicking, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 20th August 2021 by Eric Sturman Preparing your wicking bed for spring planting Spring has definitely come early this year so, wanting to get a head start, I have defied the seed packet scripture and gone out early. Last week I sowed all my spring seeds. I put...
