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Garden Wicking Beds = Water Wise Gardening
1. Intelligently Designed Urban Foodscapes
Wicking Beds
Presentation from HMA WA - By Charles Otway
High Yield, Water and Nutrient wise, gardening systems.
2. Why Wick ?
• Thousands of Perth residents want to and need
to grow food in their own homes and yards.
• However, Perth garden soils are:
– Highly leaching sand
– With little to no TOC and mineralisation
– Subjected to long hot dry summers
• Evaporation rates exceed Rainfall 9 months of the
year. So for only 3 months of the year you can
grow veggies in the soil without wasting water.
3. What is a Wicking Bed
– A garden bed that has a water holding reservoir
directly underneath the growing medium/soil.
– No more sophisticated than a self watering pot.
– Colin Austin in the mid 90’s coined the term and
idea of the wicking beds. His designs extend to
carbon sequestering and producing in broader
scale inground wicking row agricultuural systems.
See www.waterright.com.au
– Many commercial examples – Nics Veggie Pots,
Self watering Pots, Ross Mars wicking corro beds.
4. How does it work
• Water and Nutrients leaching/draining below the
vegetables roots are caught by the reservoir.
• This reservoir of water and nutrients then feeds the
‘liquid fertiliser’ back to the soil/plants via capillary
(wicking) and evaporation and condensation.
• Mulching of the surface in warm months keeps water
losses to bare minimum making wicking beds extremely
water efficient.
• Similarly as all nutrients stay in the soil/bed the systems
have low fertiliser needs and extremely low wastage. It
also encourages organic management due to the risk of
accumulating salts and other toxins.
7. DIY Design – The Liner
• The key principle is to created a level closed
bottom garden bed with what ever material is
cheap, available and lest toxic.
• Small Beds - Bathtubs, Broccoli (Poly)boxes, ½
olive and wine barrels.
• Larger Beds -Plastic lined in-ground beds with
200 micro builders plastic or pond liner.
• Cost vs Strength and Cost vs Timeframe
8. DIY DESIGN – The Reservoir Filler
• What you use as your reservoir filler is the most
‘argued’ part of wicking beds. Gravel, Sand, Vol Clay,
woodchips or simply a structural void and wick.
• While the wicking or capillary water movement
mechanism is the most discussed (and coins the name)
I have found that evaporation and condensation is also
a effective water transporter within the reservoir zone.
• This means that the medium does not need to wick for
the system to work, as long as your bed is fairly airtight
the water reservoir will evaporate water up and
condense on to the soil surface above.
9. DIY DESIGN – The Reservoir Filler
• Eitherway one of the best free mediums is
waste/broken maxi bricks. These are highly
porous like vol clay, wick well, have a huge
surface area and are free at any building site. Old
style bricks are not as effective.
• The filler can be anything with the structural
strength to hold the soil up, and enough void
space between each particle to allow a decent
volume of water in-between is suitable.
• Woodchips/mulch breaks down so needs yearly
maintenance to rebuild the reservoir.
12. Limitations
• Deep rooted perennial and root crops are not
suited to a 30cm deep soil with water beneath.
• Ensure your drain is between the layers and
works and can be checked/observed.
• Only use organic low strength fertiliser and soil
amendments. No strong artificial salt fertilisers.
• The beds will get and stay very damp in winter so
crops like fennel, dill, sage etc that prefer good
drainage soil will struggle in winter.
13. DIY Design – Optional Extras
• Add a small worm farm or feeding station to
above ground closed wicking beds.
• You can manifold multiple wicking beds.
• Link up a liquid nutrient source to supply the
‘water’. Aquaponics, pond, rainwater tank.
• Installing a float valve and gravity feeding bed
reservoirs ‘on demand’.