Wicking Raised Garden Bed Plant Design
Choose your spot and level it.
Wicking raised garden bed plant design. Raised bed wicking garden. Ibc wicking bed how to videos. I had been reading through a number of instructables on self watering planters and came across a design for a wicking bed garden.
Wicking bed raised garden. The veg approach to building a wicking bed. They re basically containers with water reservoirs at the base like a giant self watering pot.
A step by step guide. I live in a hot climate and i wanted to find a way to avoid dragging out a long length of garden hose 3 4 times a week to water my garden. Self watering pots have been around for decades and are based o the principle of sub irrigation where the water supply sits below the.
Having introduced wicking beds and why they can be a great idea let us get into some details check out the below diagram of a veg style wicking bed and then let s go through each bit step by step in the order we actually install them. Choose a sunny spot and level it. Here are two good videos showing how to build ibc wicking beds.
These videos are a great place to start. The second by sophie from gardening australia. Your wicking bed needs to be fairly level.
A wicking bed is a self watering raised garden bed and even though the design is a relatively new innovation that is catching the attention of many produce gardeners worldwide it is essentially n. A wicking bed is a self watering raised garden bed and even though the design is a relatively new innovation that is catching the attention of many produce gardeners worldwide it is essentially nothing more than a large scale version of a self watering pot. I wanted a raised bed planter but the best location in my yard is not close to a spigot for watering.