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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garden walls
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:58:28 -0500

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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