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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> The first bed went up so easily that we made a second, then a third
> boxed bed.  I ran out of scrap wire for the bottoms, otherwise I would
> have kept going.

Scrap wire? Perhaps I assumed incorrectly that the bottom wire was to 
exclude gophers and moles. I used quarter-inch hardware cloth in my 
ferrocement bed. Those who find it difficult to recycle glass 
containers might smash the glass down there and then add a thick 
layer of stone and gravel.