Wicking garden bed

Discover the benefits of wicking garden beds and learn how to create a sustainable and low-maintenance garden. Explore top ideas to design and build your own wicking bed for healthy plant growth.
Vegetable Garden Design, Food Garden, Garden Planters, Backyard Garden, Garden Landscaping, Wicking Garden Bed, Wicking Beds, Veggie Patch, Self Watering Planter

The wicking bed, or self-watering garden, is not that mirage of water in the desert. Rather, it is one of the most user-friendly growing infrastructures for all the lifestyle, time-poor, lazy gardeners out there. Using the age-old idea of capillary action, water in a reservoir below is drawn up and into the soil, to be used by the plants as required. Ever dipped a tissue in a glass of water and watched the moisture climb up the fibres, defying gravity? A wicking bed works in the same way.

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Cassandra Skelton