Building A Wicking Garden Bed

Use three screws evenly spaced for each join and fasten through the face of the long boards into the end of the short.

Building a wicking garden bed. Pond liner either PVC or the more expensive butyl rubber these have very long. Make sure it is pushed snuggly up against the walls and into any corners so there is less pressure on the material once filled with scoria and water. In comparison an equivalent 600mm high wicking bed made with pine sleepers and pond liner from Bunnings to get to this stage would cost 9 x sleepers 10620 Pond liner 4m x 3m 90 OR Builders plastic 200um 4m x50m 99-Fixings Gal coach screws or bugle head screws 25-60.

Gravel is the most common medium but there are a. Here is a list of everything we bought for our new wicking beds. You can build a wicking bed out of any sort of container but Sophie likes to use big old wooden vegetable crates.

2 Position the pipe. Im sure your wicking bed will earn plenty of admirers and that youll get loads of questions. If youd like a hand getting your wick on in your backyard then there are three main ways we can help.

Initially you may also need to water from the top too to fully wet the soil and start the wicking process. Its easy its cheap and works. I think they are the perfect way to grow vegies in our hot summer dry climate as the vegies take the water they need when they need it and they save so much time in watering the perfect solution for busy people.

Steps 1 Line the garden bed. Water is drawn up like a wick by capillary action. Most of the DIY sites for wicking beds focus on building beds that use media a layer in between the soil and the water reservoir as their wick.

Once the soil is damp the bed is ready for planting. Go it alone option. WaterUps are recycled plastic modular units which allow you to construct a wicking bed of almost any length width shape and size.