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25.01.2022 Check out this great WaterUps installation in QLD by our partners @aqualess.com.au #growingfood #sustainablearchitecture #sustainablefuture #foodsecurity #growyourownfood #growwhatyoueat #eatwhatyougrow #selfsufficient #selfsufficiency #gardenbeds

24.01.2022 Here's a great update from our local Canberra WaterUps stockist....

23.01.2022 Fresh from the wicking bed garden! Rosemary to go with a roast dinner tonight. #frommygarden #frommybackyard #growyourown #gardentokitchen #homegrownfood #homegrownherbs #grewitmyself #growingherbs #gardeningisfun #ediblegarden #ediblegardening

21.01.2022 One of the things I love about my garden is that there’s always something new to see and learn. Here, I’m amazed at how well one of my wicking beds has self-sown from a previous crop that was chopped back a little while ago. I retro-fitted one of my raised timber beds around 5 years ago to convert it to a wicking bed using our WaterUps wicking cells and have grown a lot of great food in it since.... But, as a few of the plants had gone pretty wild and it was time to plant some summer crops and try some new things I decided to leave the garden to do its own thing for a while and left the plants to flower and go to seed. The flowers were great at attracting pollinators (especially the nasturtium and rocket lettuce) and I collected lots of seed. I then cleared the bed to prepare for the new plants including (hopefully) garlic as I’m booked in to a garlic growing workshop at @pocketcityfarms next weekend. The tiny nasturtium that I purchased as a sickly sad little seedling a while ago and nursed to health had gone truly feral so that was chopped back and made for a tasty treat for next door’s chooks. Although I pulled a lot of plants out, I left a few in including the curry leaf tree that I bought from the Eco shop from @kimbriki a while ago plus an old silverbeet plant and a couple of Surinam Spinach plants that always give me such a tasty and abundant yield. As I had to clear a couple of my citrus trees of stink bugs yesterday I was able to spend some time in the garden and it was good to check on the state of the bed a couple of weeks after my previous work. As I’d been given some seed potatoes, I planted a few of them in one corner and they’ve sprouted nicely but, to my surprise, there’s so many rocket lettuce plants and little nasturtium plants popping up all over it! The bed has self-seeded from the previous plants and with the extensive rain we’ve had here on the Northern Beaches over the last few weeks Mother Nature has worked her magic and helped by the self-watering wicking cells we’ve got so much rocket growing we’ll be eating it for breakfast lunch and dinner !! Rocket pesto anyone? Crop swap?

21.01.2022 No... Not a monster pizza delivery this evening at this QLD residence. This is wicking bed delivery COVID style. Our kit beds are delivered to your door in kit form and flat packed.... This delivery will soon be assembled by the home owner to give them seven WaterUps Oasis self-watering wicking gardens with a combined growing space of around 9m2 All sustainably watered using around 80% less water than an above ground spray or hose watered garden.

21.01.2022 These stylish planters are just some of those recently installed by @greenoptionsptyltd along Military Rd on Sydney’s Northside for @north.sydney By using WaterUps wicking cells in the base they need and use a lot less water. They’ll also be a lot more resilient as the plants won’t be affected by long dry spells as the in-ground reservoir will allow them to self-water to keep the plants happy and healthy.

20.01.2022 The Coogee Bay Road Shared Village project runs from 28 October 2020 to January 2021. Background The project came to life after businesses asked @randwickcouncil for help in providing more space on Coogee Bay Road for pedestrians, shoppers and outdoor dining.... The project has added grassed areas, tables and seating. The changes will help businesses on their COVID recovery journey, and make Coogee Bay Road a better experience for locals and visitors. Here’s a few shots of just some of the 24 of our Oasis planter boxes and 120 sqm of wicking beds under grass as part of the construction that was installed by our partners @plantabox_portagrass Plantabox provide portable grow systems for sport surfaces, landscaping and the built environment for more see www.plantabox.com.au For more on the Coogee Bay Project please visit the Randwick Council website at this address https://tinyurl.com/y2axmajp See more

17.01.2022 My low maintenance garden has gone wild. I have self seeded rocket growing by the compost, a rogue lettuce that left its wicking bed home, nasturtiums growing along the fence line and tomatoes growing where I’ve not planted tomatoes!! Spring is definitely here at my place! #mygardentoday #mygardenlife #ediblegarden #ediblegardening #wickingbedgardens #wickingbeds #myediblegarden #growwhatyoueat #vegies #vegiepatch #homegrown #homegrownveggies #wickingcells #waterups

17.01.2022 Great news and much deserved - check this out!

17.01.2022 Grown from seeds planted at the start of Covid iso and planted mid-April. Our wicking beds now provide us with a regular supply of fresh food. Here’s tonight’s harvest of lettuce leaves and celery to add to a side-salad. #gardengrown #mywickingbed #foodfromthegarden #growwhatyoueat #growitlocal #ediblegarden #ediblegardening #gardentotable #gardentoplate #myediblegarden #growingfood #realfooding #organicgardening

13.01.2022 We’re very proud and excited to an event partner for the 3rd Urban Agriculture Forum. The Urban Agriculture Forum (UAF) is a bi-annual event that is held on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, in Melbourne. The 3rd National UAF will be held in April 2021.... The forum attracts over 200 policy makers, practitioners, innovators and institutions in the urban agriculture sector. You’re invited to join us as we explore the growing urban agriculture movement in Australia and beyond and the positive impacts it has on our community’s health and wellbeing. UAF 2021 will be another monumental experience. The agenda will feature a number of innovative Australian and International urban agricultural practices including ground breaking new research in the field. Urban Agriculture Month April 2021 will see the first inaugural National Urban Agriculture month spring into action. The month long celebration will feature garden tours, events and workshops highlighting the movement in Australia, with a number of key partners already on board. For more information please visit https://uaf.org.au/

13.01.2022 We reckon’ there’s two kinds of folks in the gardening world those who know the benefits of water wicking and those that don’t (yet!) This gent (Geoff from Holder in the ACT) has certainly embraced the use of using wicking beds to help keep his plants happy and healthy. Here he is installing the latest timber beds which will be 400mm high and 2.8 m long and 1.2m wide and as the wicking cells are modular and 40cm square he used a configuration of 7 cells long and 3 cells w...ide which gives him just under 3.5m2 of growing space. The pots in front of shot are salvaged fibreglass moulds adapted as wicking beds and in the background you’ll be able to see previously planted wicking beds that were installed around 12 months ago . #gardening #gardendesign #gardenplanning #gardenplans #ediblegarden #ediblegardening #waterwickingsystem #wickingbeds #wickingbed #wickingbedsmaking #wickingcells #waterups #waterwise #waterwisegardening #sustainableliving

12.01.2022 Although higher and deeper beds don’t offer optimal depths for water wicking beds there are several work arounds like adding soil to create a false base in the bottom of the bed. Thanks to Nairn in Newcastle NSW who sent these pics of the beds he was building today. To see more info on using WaterUps in deeper beds please see the blog section of our web site for the article Optimal Height of Wicking Beds

12.01.2022 I’m getting a good harvest of celery from the seedlings we planted in the wicking bed in April and I like to use the leaves to make celery salt and what I call celery dust I dry the leaves and thinner stalks and then grind in the old coffee machine. For the salt version I just mix the finely chopped leaves with kosher salt in an air tight jar. For the dust I zizz the salt and leaves together. Check out on the net for all manner of recipes and how you can use them.... (Particularly good added to Bloody Mary’s....) Just another way of using produce from a garden with food you can grow yourself. #celery #celerysalt #celerydust #homegrown #homegrownvegetables #homegrownvegetables #gardentopantry #ediblegarden #wickingbed #wickingbeds See more

12.01.2022 This single pic shows a simple example of local and community food sharing. The olives are from the batch I bought from @pocketcityfarms in Camperdown back in April and prepared using a recipe from @milkwood_permaculture who are in TAS. The cured olives were marinated in olive oil with thyme and rosemary from my garden and garlic from a friend in Edith NSW (who plants lots to keep pests off his apple and cherry orchard) The preserved lemons in the marinade were from my friend Peter in Wollombi in the Hunter who grew them on his property and then preserved some. The big lemon I grew at my place on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. All together a story of people growing something and sharing it and the knowledge on how to make something yummy!

10.01.2022 Gardening identity Sophie Thomson visited Kangaroo Island at the end of October to host a series of workshops on how residents can summer proof their gardens. The gardening workshops were made possible through a grant written by Junction and funded by the Country SA Primary Health Network as part of their Bushfire Recovery Community Grant. There were then practical demonstrations at Parndana Community Regrowth Garden, the construction of which she instigated earlier this year... as part of the bushfire recovery process. This has been Sophie's third gardening mission to Kangaroo Island since the bushfires, as she visited in March to give talks as part of the fire recovery and then again in June to deliver 500 donated fruit trees. Sophie also visited several KI gardens just prior to the bushfires to feature them in the popular television show. To see more about the workshops and the story of the amazing work being done on the Island and the results being achieved please see the Facebook page at this address https://www.facebook.com/ReGrowthGardenRecovery/

08.01.2022 Back in July 2018 we worked with three volunteers to install 4 wicking beds on a dusty patch of land close to the West Pymble Mall. Over the next 12 months more wicking beds were installed, all thanks to community grants from @kuringgai_council Earlier this week I was in the area and decided to pop by to see how things had progressed.... Fair to say the group have done an amazing job and the site looks fantastic. Community Gardens and Urban Food Growing spaces not only provide healthy and nutritious food but they add so much more to the community and those that are involved. Much is available on-line and in print about the therapeutic benefits time with nature brings and especially during the current health emergency now, more than ever, these spaces are offering so many mental health benefits to so many people. To find a Community Garden in your area search via the internet or check out your local council website.

05.01.2022 Back in March 2019 we were contacted by a representative from a Community Garden at the side of St John’s church in Toowoomba QLD. They were having real problems with Camphor Laurel tree roots invading their raised garden beds. Discussions were had on whether digging the beds out and lining them with pond liner to install our WaterUps cells to turn the beds in to wicking beds may solve the problem.... The answer was yes and they started a project to convert the beds closest to the trees and most affected first. Around 18 month later they are now in a position to convert more and our local stockist Paul Jones from @aqualess.com.au visited the site on Monday to deliver more wicking cells to be installed in the tensing beds. The first picture shows the roots in a bed that has been dug out, the second picture shows the tree some 25 metres away (so just how far the roots can travel!) The other pictures show just how well the beds that were converted previously are growing. We always love seeing pics like this so well done to all at St Johns Community Garden!

05.01.2022 Earlier in the year (back in March) we were making plans to present a series of workshops as part of our support for the Sydney Edible Garden Trail and then we all went in to lockdown because of the health emergency. This lead to a virtual trail being created and people from around the world were able to access gardens on the trail so things worked out incredibly well in the end (all credit to the organisers and those involved and @costasworld for his support of the event...) Flash forward to yesterday (Sunday) and it was great fun to close the loop when Bonnie and Bob helped the good folks of the Naremburn Community Garden remove an old, rotting and defunct bed and replace with a shiny new treated timber bed with grant finding from the proceeds of the Edible Trail initiative. It was very much a community event with everyone mucking in whether to supply coffee and cake, man the chainsaw or get their hands on the tools. The finished bed was 4.8 long and .8 wide and holds 24 WaterUps cells in a 12 x 2 format giving nearly 4M2 of growing space Thanks for a great day guys and we look forward to seeing how your garden grows!!

04.01.2022 Here’s a few photo’s that show part of the WaterUps wicking bed garden installation at a home in Mt Hawthorn (Perth) As can be seen in the pictures the garden included both raised wicking beds and the use of the wicking cells to water an inground garden bed This was part of a larger project by the owners to build and live in an energy efficient home.... The home was subsequently an entry in a great project called the Sustainable House Day Sustainable House Day 2020 provides the opportunity to explore some of Australia’s most unique and inspiring homes. All homes participating in Sustainable House Day have a minimum of four sustainable features. The sustainable feature can be anything that goes towards sustainable lifestyles, energy saving and healthy home practices. This year, Sustainable House Day is completely virtual, meaning you can explore homes from all over the country. For more details see https://sustainablehouseday.com/ For more details on WaterUps self-watering wicking cells please see www.waterups.com.au @littleveggiepatch_perth @reneworgau @smartwatermark #sustainableliving #sustainability #sustainable #sustainabledesign #sustainablearchitecture #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #landscapedesigner #landscaper #savewater #waterwisegardening #waterwise #gardeninspiration #outdoordesign

04.01.2022 More a WaterUps self watering wicking cells delivered to a school to help them teach young people how to grow plants We also have a range of teaching aids to link sustainability to the the curriculum whilst making learning interesting and fun. Check out the Sustainable Schools tab under the Local Community section of our website www.waterups.com.au

03.01.2022 Spring colours in my garden. So pretty. #gardencolour #mygarden #gardenflowers #edibleflower #flowersmakemehappy #wickinggarden #wickinggardens #wickinggardenbeds #springtime

02.01.2022 With a focus on linking sustainability to the curriculum we’re working with a growing (pun intended) number of schools to help them install and maintain gardens for students to work with. As wicking beds use significantly less water than above ground irrigated beds (around 80% less) and can be left several weeks without the need to be watered they provide an ideal solution to the challenges faced when weekends and longer term breaks might mean there’s no one around to water them. To see some of our school projects please check out the School and ELC section under the projects tab on our web page (Address in the bio above) or for more details see us on page 21 of the current (Term 4) journal of the NSW P & C journal at this website https://www.pandc.org.au/journals/

01.01.2022 Ops shops are a great way to recycle and re-use things and here’s a great little find. I shall enjoy reading this. #companionplanting #companionplants #organicgardening #organicgarden #organicgardener #chemicalfreegardening #naturalisticgarden #happygardener #happygardeninglife #gardeningbooks

01.01.2022 On the weekend we had the family together for a meal so I cured some salmon (YUM!!) Served with crème fraiche it was a lovely treat but we didn’t need the whole tub. As there was a bit left, for dinner last night I wilted this mix of spinach and rainbow chard leaves from the garden in a wok, stirred through the crème fraiche with a squeeze of lemon and seasoned with some grated nutmeg and salt and pepper... Hey presto! a great side dish using home grown vegies from my garden, a lemon from my own tree and a left-overs from the weekend. It’s times like this that I really appreciate how much I love the convenience of fresh healthy food available so close to my kitchen and it’s so satisfying to know that I grew many of the plants myself from seeds!