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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Gene; Have you developed any easier ways to work with cement? Between 
lugging the 80 pound bags, all the water, finding something large enough to 
mix it in, the mess, making the forms, etc., I can't get up the gumption to 
start my slipform wall project. It's going to be a short wall (2'-3') on the 
north side of  the herb bed to retain heat for the herbs (and look nice, 
divides the garden from the orchard). Any hints?

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:38 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Garden walls


> On Feb 21, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> > > > The Nearings constructed slipform stone/concrete walls that are
> > > > faster and
> > > stronger. It takes fewer stones, but you need concrete.
> >
> > And yet, to fence in a 100' x 100' garden took them 14 years.  Also,
> > if you
> > read the account by the Nearings themselves, it sounds like they did
> > it all
> > themselves, just the two of them.  But in reality all during that
> > time they had
> > as many as 30 people staying at their place for a few days or a few
> > months and
> > these sojourners did most of the work.
>
> The modern way is the easy way, which is to say buy materials that go
> up fast. The new world economy will change that.
>
> In a post long ago I gave my design for a permanent, solid garden
> wall: two ferro fences a foot apart with the space between filled with
> stones, detritus, bottles, cans, anything solid and non-polluting,
> although once the wall is capped with masonry it becomes a sealed
> vault and the contents inert. I haven't made mine yet but the new web
> site will report on such projects as they come to fruition.
>
> Gene GeRue
> www.RURALIZE.com
>
>
>
>
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