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 | Dec 5, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Garden Wicking, Landscape Projects, WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 5th December 2021 by Ian Collins 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...
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...
by Ian Collins | 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 Ian Collins | 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 Ian Collins | Aug 15, 2021 | WaterUps, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 15th August 2021 by Ian Collins We are pleased to announce that WaterUps® has acquired a 50% interest in Flexi Garden Frames®. In our search for a netting solution for our Oasis range of wicking beds, we struggled to find any company in the market that...