Tag: guide
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Lightweight Wicking Beds from Crab Pot Mesh and Weedmat
Crab Pot Mesh and Weedmat Wicking Beds are cheap, easy to build with simple home tools, and can be made in any shape or size to suit your requirements. Our designs minimise waste of mesh, plastic, and time. Despite their simplicity, they’re exceptionally durable—our beds built in 2010 still show little to no wear in…
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Build Your Own Shade House with Poly Pipe and Battens (V3)
This six metre by four metre shade houses protects against excessive sun, wind, and pests such as insects and possums. A simple structure can be made using materials that can be purchased at any good hardware store. This design minimises waste and time, with an estimated material cost of $500 as of March 2025. Use…
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How to make school wicking beds, suitable for all age groups
Wicking beds are effective, hands-on teaching tools which introduce students to gardening while teaching Mathematics, Science and English. They also form part of teaching students how to plan, manage, and run a project. We hope that when students grow up, they will remember that growing vegetables at school was fun. In this article, we show…
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Making a Styrofoam Wicking Box
Converting Styrofoam boxes into wicking boxes is a cheap and simple way to grow at least some of your own healthy food at home. They are portable and smaller boxes fit on a 1.8 m table, so even patios and concrete slabs can become useful places to grow. They can be made with common household…
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Mixing Your Own Healthy Soil for Wicking Boxes and Tubs
Soils along the Queensland coast are often composed of silt and fine sand, with little clay and low mineral content. These sandy, low-fertility soils are sometimes sold as “topsoil” at garden supply stores, but the term refers only to their origin at the surface, not their quality or fertility. When using commercially sourced topsoil, screen…