Sutherland, NSW

We recently upgraded a couple of our own wicking beds. These had been built originally in 2019, to an earlier prototype design, but were lacking some of the features of our later beds.
We added vertical timbers in for aesthetic, sturdiness and timber stability plus we re-did the capping in the new wider style.

We also took the opportunity to add in 4 matching trellis sections. At 1.8m tall, these will give us the extra height we need for tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and snow peas.

A quick coat of decking oil was applied and the bed was looking much more like our newer models.

Because we are based in the Shire, these Sutherland beds double as our working test garden, and anyone nearby is welcome to come and see how the timber and the wicking reservoir perform over several years before ordering their own. It is the best way to understand why a well-built raised vegetable bed is worth more than a cheap flat-pack.

The iron-oxide finish on our vegetable-safe timber deepens with age rather than greying and splitting, and the structure stays true season after season. Seeing a raised garden bed that is still going strong years on tells you more than any brochure. UrbanVeg builds and maintains raised garden beds across Sutherland and the Sutherland Shire.