Tag: wicking beds
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GEC wicking bed workshop
There’s a wicking bed workshop coming up. Your’s truly will be guiding folks through the refurbishment of the Gawler Environment Centre’s wicking bed. Their wicking bed provides a small amount of veggies all year to passersby at the Council office. Come along and join the fun. Where? Gawler Environment Centre. 43 High Street When? Saturday…
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New wicking beds
The last couple of weeks have seen big changes in the front garden. After the mulching and new paths, I was looking at what scrap material we had and found two half pickle barrels. So… I reused some of the gravel, some plastic that I was gifted, old PVC pipe, polypipe and shade cloth to…
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Winter veggie bed #1 is in
I know it’s not a lot like Autumn over here in Oz, but the plants seem to be keeping their own sage advice and are growing too quickly to leave. Even these have gotten a bit ‘leggy’. Today I prepared a wicking bed for them, the one that had Tomatoes, Amaranth and Okra in it…
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Combo plots
A lot of plants work together nicely. In our search to save space, we’re using a group of plants (called a guild in permaculture) that works nicely where Jelina comes from. This little combo consists of Banana, Sugar Cane, Ginger and Climbing Beans all together in a wicking bed. All of these plants grow well…
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I made a video “A fairly detailed wander”
I’ve been playing around with short videos lately, being kind of behind the times with all this media stuff. Anyway, take a trip around the garden as I rabbit on about the plants therein. I think I cover them all. It’s nearly 20 minutes long, so grab your popcorn…
