School in Bowral, NSW

A school in Bowral required 3 wicking beds to use as a teaching aid.

Wicking beds are ideal for schools because they can teach a lot about nutrition retention, the full lifecycle of plants, hydrostatic transfer and general gardening skills.

These beds are in a sunny spot, and so should be quite prolific. And they will survive the school holidays without water!

The Southern Highlands run cooler than Sydney, with cold winters, frosts and a shorter warm season, so a raised bed has real advantages around Bowral: the lifted soil warms faster in spring than the cold ground, giving crops an earlier, longer run. A self-watering bed then carries them through dry late-summer spells.

For a Bowral school, beds like these grow well in the warmer months and survive the holidays without watering. Built from durable, food-safe timber, these raised garden beds are made to last. UrbanVeg builds raised garden beds and self-watering vegetable beds for schools across Bowral and the Southern Highlands.