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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:32 AM, EarthNSky wrote:
> That is exactly what I did with the exception that I put wire and old
> fencing in the bottom to thwart moles and voles...then added the  
> rocks,
> etc.

This bed is closest to a huge black walnut that is too valuable for  
shade to consider cutting it down. There are lots of juglone-emitting  
roots. So I poured a solid concrete bottom, then formed drainage holes  
at the bottom of the downhill ferro wall panels as I made them.

It is designed to be near-impregnable to juglone roots, moles, voles,  
armadillos, groundhogs, snakes, squirrels, rabbits, turtles-- 
everything that does not fly.

I expect to learn how high a coon can or can't jump when it smells  
ripe strawberries.