A Wicking Bed Garden saves water, is easy to maintain, and enables Self Sufficiency!
In this video I teach you EVERY STEP in the process of building wicking beds using IBC’s (Intermediate Bulk Containers) and recycled timber.
UPDATE – See how they are going here: https://youtu.be/4pBaItdP8cg
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The self watering aspect of a wicking bed enables your garden to be watered even when you go on holidays!
00:00 – Intro
00:58 – Purchase IBC
01:34 – Dismantle, Measure & Cut IBC
02:48 – Choosing Position of Bed
04:00 – Overflow Valve
04:45 – Cut PVC Piping
05:16 – Rock Layer
05:54 – Geodesic Cloth Layer
06:58 – Top Layer
07:12 – Build Timber Frame
08:02 – Hardwood Planking
08:42 – Attach Top Edging
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Hello there. I am in the processing of building a wicking bed. I am wondering what material is the best for the water reservoir? Sand or rock? I looked at getting lava rock and it is hard to find or verrrry expense. Please advise as I want to make the bed correct the first time. The bed is 8×4
Nice beds
Hi Roger, love your video, super helpful! But I'm having trouble finding the description of all of the items you have used?
Roger, once filled with water how long would they last before you have to refill them mate
You need wicks into the blue metal for it to be fully efficient
How long does the soil last? Do you change it yearly or just add nutrients every year?
Great video! You could probably connect the run off pipes up to a pvc pipe & drain into a small sump tank, then reuse the water to pump back into the beds.
Great idea. Thank you for the useful tutorial. I will construct several in my garden.
VICTORY GARDEN. Cheers 🎉
Hi Roger – as you don’t have wicking towers as such how does the water get transferred from amongst the pebbles through the echo cloth into the soil, especially when the water level drops a few inches? 2nd question: as the water resides amongst the pebbles is the coiled drainage piping at the bottom not superfluous? Many thanks!
Hey Roger,
Been on the to so list for a while now. So it's time! Can I please get a list of equipment used. I can't seem to find it attached to the video. Thanks in advance!
I've built several wicking beds but I don't understand how yours will be able to wick water when the water level drops below the top of your gravel layer. You need a finer medium, such as sand in contact with the soil layer and bottom of your reservoir. Gravel will not wick moisture.
Hey Roger,
Thanks for the step by step vid. You mentioned that all parts would be in the description however it looks like you've only included likes to fishing gear.
Where can I find more info on the materials used like outlet pipe, etc?
Thanks again
Great video Rodger, just starting to construct my beds and would like to know if the lids are water tight or do they need to be sealed. Cheers Chris A “Tin Can Bay”
This is a great video! Sophie Thompson on Gardening Aust has info about wicking ibc beds, but I like how in your video, you explain the finer details. Thank you! 😁
that costs a lot of money
These look superb, but I could never manage this level of production!
Hey mate quick question im about to start building my wicking beds one problem ive noticed is the drain pipe not handling a large downpour of rain and flooding the bed I was thinking of making the drain pipe out of 100mm pipe and having the lower bit of the 100mm pipe set at the correct height for overflow and using small amount of rock wrapped in geo fab around the pipe and using sand as the wicking material do you think this would work cheers
Probably the most down to earth wicking video ive seen so far, welldone mate. Question – I assume that hand watering is required until plant roots take depth to reach the water level/geomesh?
Can you please give a detailed list of all components required for overflow valve? Thanks
Do you have a section of the soil going fairly low down into the sump? Just so when the section of water gets lower than the top of rocks wont wicking stop?
Hi Rodger
Thank you for your video on wicking beds, it's the best. But do you actually have a list of equipment/supplies needed to makeyour wicking beds., And what part of the wicking bed each supply/piece of equipment is for?
Great tutorial! Very detailed and I should be able to make one myself now thanks to this video! 😊
Hi Roger, I have watched many videos detailing various wicking bed materials and construction and yours is by far the easiest and cheapest. Thank you. Can you provide an update on how the beds have performed since you created this video? Thank you.
You said all the details were in the description box but all I see are links to fishing stuff. That's great and all, but I want to know about wicking bed stuff.
Enjoyed the video. Where did you purchase the IBCs
Thank you. That’s was super helpful