Online Food Garden Chat May 2020

On Sunday 17 May 2020 the Food Garden Group's first-ever online food garden chat took place. We talked about aphids in Brussels Sprouts, biochar, improving soil, weed mat, wicking beds, moving an olive tree and carrots.  See below for a summary of the discussions.

How to build a wicking bed

If you are thinking of adding a raised bed to your food garden, why not make it a wicking bed?  This blog post explains how to turn the normally useless bottom half of your raised bed into a water reservoir that will save you watering-time and water.

At a recent food garden visit host Tara explained the use of wicking beds and showed us several wicking beds in action.  People wanted to know more and the idea was born for a blog post that would explain how to construct one.