{"id":1117,"date":"2018-02-27T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2018-02-28T03:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:07:18","slug":"replacing-soil-in-biofilta-garden-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/2018\/02\/replacing-soil-in-biofilta-garden-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing soil in biofilta garden beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our great little community garden in Davis St uses Biofilta foodwall garden beds which are based on a community style wicking garden bed approach. I hadn&#8217;t replaced the soil in my two tubs for the two years the bed has been in place, so thought that I would give it a go and create a video, or rather slideshow of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The garden, based in Davis St, Kensington in Melbourne is the first community garden commissioned by the City of Melbourne using the biofilta system and it provides a great solution that is enjoyed by everyone who passes by or who gardens in the plots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9FFqw-i1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The following video<\/a> was created using the free Adobe Spark Video product where I took photos of my steps taken to replace the soil and and then provided a voiceover at the end for each slide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/video\/pPBAI3JQySaEW\/embed\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our great little community garden in Davis St uses Biofilta foodwall garden beds which are based on a community style wicking garden bed approach. I hadn&#8217;t replaced the soil in my two tubs for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[360,22],"tags":[395,394],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-gardens","tag-gardening","tag-wicking-beds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/gopr4544.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9FFqw-i1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":279,"url":"https:\/\/xsymetrix.com.au\/garden\/2016\/04\/popup-gardens-and-cinemas-in-kensington-melbourne\/","url_meta":{"origin":1117,"position":0},"title":"Popup Gardens and Cinemas in Kensington Melbourne","author":"xsymetrix","date":"April 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Autumn is well and truly upon us and despite defying the norm and turning up for a Collins St Naplan Online workshop in traditional Hawaiian shirt I fear it might be my last journey out with shirt alone, unless there are Hawaiian Hoodies of a similar style. 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