[permaculture] Walls for raised garden beds

Ray Cirino cobanation at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 6 01:45:12 EDT 2009


Dear Maria,
I'm working in a drought area in LA where every drop of rain is pulled to the beds. I use billboard tarp to block bermuda grass. We were lucky to have these blocks on the property to build the space and spent no money except a few plants. We'll insert a pond soon off a grey water shower soon. Check out the photos and you may see how it's made.
We are building an ego wonderland as we built some of our butt compost house that is butt shaped with a living roof. It should all be fun in which we do or why do it.
Ray


--- On Sun, 4/5/09, maria morehead <spiralmother at gmail.com> wrote:

From: maria morehead <spiralmother at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Walls for raised garden beds
To: "permaculture" <permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 10:48 AM

Hi Ray~
That sounds fascinating.  Do you have any pictures to share of the process?

thanks~
maria

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ray Cirino <cobanation at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Paul,
> Thanks for putting it out there about raised beds. Here's how I've been
> building raised beds.
> I'm building an amphitheater for seating around Water Woman and the beds
> are the swells of energy pulsating out into the the rest of the world.
>
> Ray
>
>
> --- On Sat, 4/4/09, paul wheaton <paul at richsoil.com> wrote:
>
> From: paul wheaton <paul at richsoil.com>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Walls for raised garden beds
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 8:27 PM
>
> Raised beds can help you get two weeks (or more) from each end of the
> growing season.
>
> They can also help you to create micro climates.
>
> Raised beds are extra, extra good for those that have soil that is too wet.
> Or for those with no soil at all!
>
> Raised beds help you to have a planting area that nobody ever walks on and
> compacts - thus having exceptionally fryable soil without tilling and
> without tilling, you can accumulate soil structure and OM.
>
> I think if we tried, we could probably come up with two dozen reasons to
> have raised beds - this is just what popped into my head this moment.
>
> I guess the moral of the story is that the one time work pays you back for
> decades into the future.
>
> Can you think of a time when it isn't worth it?  I've heard that in some
> super hot places, they actually do the opposite:  trench gardening.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Golden Love <goldenlove at cruzio.com> wrote:
>
> > Why raised beds? ..... do you have gophers.....poor soil conditions?
> > Another alternative is to create a rain harvesting earth work to collect
> > rain and graywater to water your veggies with. Why make it complicated?
> >
> > Smiles,
> >
> > Golden
> >
> > Golden Love
> > Love's Gardens
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> > www.lovesgardens.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: permaculture-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> > [mailto:permaculture-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Helwig
> > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:13 AM
> > To: permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: [permaculture] Walls for raised garden beds
> >
> > I am looking for advice on what sustainable, low cost techniques could be
> > used for constructing a fair number of raised garden beds 1-2 feet in
> > height. I am thinking cob or rammed earth may be options, but am
> concerned
> > about their longevity when exposed to the elements. Searching the web has
> > not turned up anything definitive yet. Any suggestions or success
> stories?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JimH
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