Wicked (pronounced “wikt”) garden beds are an increasingly popular way of growing vegetables and herbs. They are self-contained raised beds with built-in water reservoirs that supply water to plants from the bottom up. This changes how, and how much, you need to water. Because they are self-watering (apart from a tiny input from you), they …
Saturday 28 May – 8.30am to 12pm – Wicked garden bed workshop Read More »
Vermicomposting, or worm farming, is easy once you know how! It takes around half the time of conventional composting, and produces vermicast, or ‘black gold’, for your garden. This increases nutrients in your soil and encourages microbial life, and reduces the need for fertilisers and pesticides. Black gold improves water retention and contains plant enzymes …
Saturday 28 August 9am to 12pm – Learn how to build your own worm farm Read More »
We are taking bookings for our next workshop on Saturday 13 March, at 8.30am. Our plan is to work on constructing a gabion wall, which will be the home to a variety of herbs and plants. To book click here ‘Gabion’ means ‘cage’ in Italian, as the wall is constructed of connecting cages that are …
The workshop last Saturday saw a great bunch of people planting two of potentially seven native food forest guilds. These types of guilds ideally have seven layers, from very tall trees to smaller trees, shrubs, ground cover and root plants. The two guilds we made have a sandpaper fig and a macadamia tree as their …
The composting workshop we held today – the first after Covie – was a real success, despite the rain that hit hard at one stage. Everyone got happily involved in a hands-on way after Graham explained how we were going to make a cubic metre of hot compost. The first row for the three-bay compost …
So you have done some basic soil tests and now want to improve your soil. You need to make compost, but how to go about doing that? Join Graham Chapman at the Gympie Community Garden as he teaches us how to make a three-bay compost system, and hot compost, using freely available resources. This is …
Saturday, 8 August 2020 @ 8:30 am – 1 pm – Improving Your Soil Using Compost Read More »
