The Time's Up garden is not simply a place of soil and plants, rather a collection of systems created on the artificial land of this peninsula between the Danube and the Industrial harbour. Suspended beds, pumping and irrigation systems, bolted on soil retainers that give an environment for gardening. Augmented gardens looks at the ways that technologies and gardening can be brought together, the use of wasted resources and neglected corners for food and other gardening. The combination of hi tech monitoring technologies, low tech mushroom cultivation and the harbourside environment will allow us to explore many possibilities for cultural exchange.

A SUNINI workshop will take place with the NGG workshop in early May 2012.

Has closed, details here.

In 2012 there will be a gardener in residence, building upon work developing the Time's Up Augmented Garden. This page attempts to summarise some of the experiences in a wiki format, to allow easy editing and access by interested people as well as those involved.

Some details of the experiences are collected here: questions, ideas and further experiences are accumulating. Slowly but surely.

Image. Description of the planting situation with notes from the 2011 growing season: http://timesup.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/image_big/Garden_11.jpg

Some of the mechanical devices Harvest quantities 2011 Ideas: ongoing supply seems to work and offer immediate feedback: salads, tomatoes, capsicums Experiences:

• Pumpkins: the plants grow well but the pumpkins do not
• Potatoes: deep system sort of worked (link to blog)
• Beetroot: okay
• carrots: good flavour, not very big.
• Tomatoes: grow well, rain protection and sunshine / warmth help
• Capsicum and chillis: grew well. The existing plots can be re-used, which is meant to be great for chilli.
• Making the high hanging gardens self-seeding would be good, new plant colony is possible.
• The 2011 harvest is listed here: http://timesup.org/content/harvest-2011

Watering:

• the main windmill is operating, but is suffering from age.
• The backup pump system works well and was probably necessary.
• The Ram was effective. Has been dismantled for now.
• The tipping pipes tipple along nicely
• The high hanging gardens are surviving.