Say Goodbye to Pests on Your Vegetables

Our custom wicking beds carefully water your veggies from below - therefore the top of the bed is dry.

Snails and slugs hate the dry - therefore you don't need to use slug pellets which harm wildlife and pets.

Beneficial predators can then move in, such as this skink - they love to eat snails, slugs, aphids, ants.

Everything forms a natural balance, allowing your veggies to thrive like never before!

The reason comes down to that dry surface. Slugs and snails need moisture to move, so the dry top layer of a wicking bed is hostile territory for them — no need for slug pellets that harm pets, birds and lizards.

Watering from below also keeps the leaves dry, which denies fungal diseases (mildew, blight, black spot) the damp conditions they need to take hold. Just as importantly, skipping the pellets and sprays lets the good guys move in. Ladybirds and lacewings deal with aphids, predatory wasps handle caterpillars, and skinks and frogs patrol for snails and slugs.

Plant a few flowering herbs — alyssum, dill, or coriander left to flower — among your veg to feed those beneficial insects, and the garden settles into a natural balance that polices itself.

When something does flare up, start gentle: pick caterpillars off by hand, hose aphids from leaves, and reach for a soap spray or neem oil before anything stronger — and always spray in the cool of the evening to protect bees. Healthy, unstressed plants shrug off pests far better than struggling ones, which is the quiet advantage of a bed that keeps your veg perfectly watered and fed.

Contact Us for an Installation

We build and install across Sydney — from the Sutherland Shire and St George to the Inner West, Eastern Suburbs, North Shore, Northern Beaches, Hills District and Western Sydney — and we travel for larger jobs in regional NSW, the Illawarra, Southern Highlands and Blue Mountains. Tell us where you are and what you’d like to grow.