Tag: wicking beds
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Worm tower maintenance
Worm towers are an excellent way to keep up the nutrient levels in our wicking beds. They require little maintenance beyond a regular top up. I was wondering if they needed a periodic clean out, so pulled up one and had a look. I was interested in what was happening at the bottom of…
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Phil’s sand mini-wicking beds
I was visiting our friend Phil last weekend at his home. While I was there, he showed me an interesting take on the wicking bed idea. Phil’s idea is to use shallow trays of sand to raise seeds and seedlings using the basic design of wicking beds. You can see the concept in action in…
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Ready for Winter
Well…much more ready than in past years. Summer’s truly over now, here in the south of Oz. The joy of fighting through a jungle of cool, green growth will be replaced with trying to avoid the same growth, turned icy and wet. So, we’ve cleared away a lot of stuff that was starting to die…
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4 magic squares
The demise of the big wicking bed has left me with enough material to make 4 square beds of about 1m a side. I’m interested in getting a perpetual rotation going using the four beds. I’ve rarely set aside specific areas for specific veggies, but as we’re looking to producing quality surplus this year, I…
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Joys of wicking
So….Jelina wanted a raised bed for kitchen veggies, and Marlon agreed to cook with more, so it seemed a great time to make a really big wicking bed. I had enough roofing steel to make the sides of a 1.8m x 900 x 900 bed, had some 50 x 50mm square fence post cut to…
