Hi,
Here's some raised garden beds from our "lost photos" collection.....
Gary
Hi,
Here's some raised garden beds from our "lost photos" collection.....
Gary
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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Hi Gary
Raised garden beds are certainly productive. I recently made a small raised garden bed out of a piece of corflute I had lying around. It is producing a nice crop of corriander. The black colour absorbs the heat well encouraging good growth.
Regards
Joey
Hi Joey,
Just one of the great things about raised beds is that you can make them out of many materials.
Gary
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
www.microponics.net.au - for candid dialogue on integrated backyard food production.
www.urbanaquaponics.com.au - the home of the Online Urban Aquaponics Manual.
Hi,
Our raised beds are cracking along nicely at the moment. We've already harvested zucchini and silver beet (courgettes and Swiss chard for our US friends).
Gary
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
www.microponics.net.au - for candid dialogue on integrated backyard food production.
www.urbanaquaponics.com.au - the home of the Online Urban Aquaponics Manual.
really want to start on those before winter here in Taiwan, as that is the time for western vegetables and a raised bed would be just the ticket. for some things that I like to eat like potatoes.
All system tests are now recorded at http://aquaponics.scorched-revolution.com/ So if you are interested in my system tests. go there
Hi Pugo,
Autumn, winter and spring are the peak growing seasons in Queensland - we're sub-tropical.
Gary
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
www.microponics.net.au - for candid dialogue on integrated backyard food production.
www.urbanaquaponics.com.au - the home of the Online Urban Aquaponics Manual.
Hi,
Our bush tomatoes are going well.
The bushes are supported by two horizontal sections of reinforcing mesh.
Gary
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
www.microponics.net.au - for candid dialogue on integrated backyard food production.
www.urbanaquaponics.com.au - the home of the Online Urban Aquaponics Manual.
Tomatoes gone wild..looking great.. we will see what happens to mine later..
Hi,
In the past couple of weeks, we've converted two of our raised bed gardens into wicking worm beds. These beds have always been great places to grow food but they suffered from irregular watering.......or over-watering.
Converting them to wicking beds will extend the watering intervals and will ensure that the plants in the bed never go without water.
I dug all of the growing mix out of the beds and placed a round plastic tub in the empty bed for use as a water reservoir. I loaded drainage sand around the sides of the water reservoir and filled it with large stones.
I used geotextile to cover the water reservoir and I placed a section of 100mm PVC pipe in the middle of the tub (for measuring depth of water and replenishing as necessary).
I then filled the bed with a good potting mix.....and then planted it out.
Photos soon.
Gary
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
www.microponics.net.au - for candid dialogue on integrated backyard food production.
www.urbanaquaponics.com.au - the home of the Online Urban Aquaponics Manual.
Sure has been plenty of hard work going on at your place recently Gary !!
How long did it take you to convert the two RG beds into Wicking beds?
Cheers,
Shane.
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