by Ian Collins | Feb 9, 2022 | WaterUps Featured
How long does the reservoir last in a wicking bed? As WaterUps are being used by more people in more places we are getting greater understanding of the wicking reservoir water needs in different plant growing situations and how this can vary significantly in a country...
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 | Jun 20, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Horticulture Projects, Raised beds, WaterUps Featured
A few years ago disability services provider, Kurrajong Waratah, was gifted a parcel of land on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga NSW by the late Dick Nash and his wife Maisie to create a place for the whole community to enjoy. Hildasid Farm, which was named in honour of...
by SMS Admin | Nov 3, 2020 | Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Landscape Projects, Raised beds, Residential Projects, School Gardens, Uncategorized, WaterUps Featured
Over the past year, we have been working on developing our own design for a range of steel raised wicking beds. We have taken the feedback we have received from customers and incorporated those comments with our own learnings. The criteria we established for our new...
by Ian Collins | Sep 1, 2020 | Residential Projects, School & ELC Projects, WaterUps
It’s time to think about what to do with your wicking bed now that spring has ‘sprung’. For those of us living in lockdown, Spring is perhaps a little less exciting than usual, we get it. But now that you are home all the time, it is the perfect time...