Wicked Garden Beds.

I am quite excited this morning, because I have found a system I think will truly help us with our water issues over summer. The principal is so simple and once you see it, it seems so obvious.
Basically it is like turning your garden bed into a giant water well pot, those pots that you fill a reservoir at the bottom to water your plants.

I will be researching this and definitely will be utilizing this system in my garden. I am hoping that this will cut down the summer water consumption in our garden and I will be able to spread out and have more production in the future.
Summer does not seem so depressing anymore.

Here are some of the useful sites I have found.

http://www.wickingbed.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TU5aWRNjY&feature=player_embedded

http://sustainabuildsolutions.com/wicking.html

http://eatatdixiebelles.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/raised-wicking-worm-garden-bed.html

These are just a few sites to explore, there are lots more links out there.
One of the things that I like about this system is that it can be added to containers so if you have limited space you can set up a self watering container garden. Suddenly the old concreted rainwater tanks out the back, that I had no idea what to do with, are looking really, really good.