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["Gloria Morris" <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com>]

Oooooo! That's another thing I would love to have if time and energy
to create it was no object - a labyrinth garden! I've pictured one
done in flowers, or herbs, or a mixture of plant types. A spiral would
be lovely, you are right. Path maintenance, though, would be a pain.
So, it remains a fantasy. :)
Gloria

On 12/28/06, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Sounds good, James, but lol, my first thought was DAMN that's a LOT of
> strawberries!! :)
> Another thing I thought about doing with the strips and this is again,
> something I have always wanted to do, is to make a simple, walking
> labyrynth in the garden.  I could actually use the strips and create
> narrow, 10" tall raised beds to form the path's borders.  It could be as
> simple as a large spiral...you walk and pick from both sides.  The lack
> of height would eliminate watering problems, and I have plenty of flat
> shale like stones to interestingly cover the walking path.
>
> Bev
>
> Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> >
> >> Years ago, I build a oval shaped, tiered strawberry bed out of
> >> dry-stacked rocks.
> >
> > Not necessarily recommending this design, just including it for
> > variety's sake:
> >
> > A tiered strawberry bed has no more planting surface than the same
> > dimensions perfectly flat.  True, the plants can hang over a bit
> > giving a bit more foliage area, but the actual planting area doesn't
> > change.  The advantage, as  see it, besides the affective, is that it
> > is easier to each the plants in an elevated center than the center of
> > a flat bed.
> >
> > I've done the tiered beds and the one single disadvantage was water.
> > The top tier could get bone dry in a hurry.  My design solution was
> > to keep all the plants only slightly raised (or rather the paths
> > slightly depressed) and make sure there was a good place to squat
> > within easy reach of all the plants.
> >
> > The current strawberry bed is 16'x6 1/2'  and in the center of the
> > bed are three great flat stones (about 28" square) level with the
> > growing medium.  The berry grower need only reach 18" into the bed
> > from the side and then step 3' onto one of the stones and every other
> > plant is within 18".
> >
> > This winter I've expaned the patch by laying a 2' stone path all
> > around it and then putting in a 2' strawberry bed all around that.
> > On the very outside perimeter of the whole thing (now about 24'  x
> > 14') I'm puttin in a wire fence augmented at the bottom with poultry
> > wire.  Over the top go light frames strung with black fishing line
> > through which birds just will not go and yet the frames are easily
> > set aside when one want's to attend the patch.
> >
> > In good years that's way too many strawberries. but this is offset
> > somewhat by the fact that the whole thing is planted in only day
> > neutral plants which only set on a few berries at a time but produce
> > continually until frost bits back the blossoms.  This year that was
> > the second week in November.
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