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A wicking bed is an agricultural irrigation system used in arid countries where water is scarce, devised by Australian inventor Colin Austin. [1] It can be used both in (arid) fields as in containers . [ 2 ]
Wick (disambiguation) Wicking bed, an agricultural irrigation system used in arid countries where water is scarce; Wicking fabric, used for moisture management in layered clothing; Wiking (disambiguation)
This consists of a planter suspended over a reservoir with some type of wicking material such as a polyester rope. The water is drawn up the wick through capillary action. [32] [33] A similar technique is the wicking bed; this too uses capillary action.
Raised-bed gardening is a form of gardening in which the soil is raised above ground level and usually enclosed in some way. Raised bed structures can be made of wood, rock, concrete or other materials, and can be of any size or shape. [ 1 ]
Bottom-up may refer to: Bottom-up analysis, a fundamental analysis technique in accounting and finance; Bottom-up parsing, a computer science strategy; Bottom-up processing, in Pattern recognition (psychology) Bottom-up theories of galaxy formation and evolution; Bottom-up tree automaton, in data structures; Bottom-up integration testing, in ...
This early American candlewick spread was made for a four-post bed, and includes fanciful botanical motifs, birds, and a central motif with an American eagle. Collection of Bill Volckening. Candlewicking, or candlewick is a form of whitework embroidery that traditionally uses an unbleached cotton thread on a piece of unbleached muslin.
A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel, or the banks of the waterway. [1] Usually, the bed does not contain terrestrial (land) vegetation and instead supports different types of aquatic vegetation (aquatic plant), depending on the type of streambed material and water velocity. Streambeds ...
Beds of lava flows exposed on the island of La Gomera. Bed thickness is a basic and important characteristic of beds. Besides mapping stratigraphic units and interpreting sedimentary facies, the analysis of bed thickness can be used to recognize breaks in sedimentation, cyclic sedimentation patterns, and gradual environmental changes. [10]