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  • From: mtncats <mtncats@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] raised beds
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:27:18 -0800 (PST)

All,
 
I have no experience and intend to have none.  I actively avoid treated wood.  Am looking at replacing my oak timbers after 10yrs of service.  I knew red oak wasn't the answer, but I had the timbers so...
 
Currently, as I also had bald truck tires with high disposal cost, I'm making tire boards: http://www.noble.org/Ag/Horticulture/raisdbed/rb07.html  Larger truck tires are difficult to straighten out, but I'm getting 10' x 10" boards that should last forever.
 
Absent the tires, I'd go with ferrocement.  But no way would I do without raised beds.
 
Tom (in central Va)

Gloria Baikauskas <gcb49@flash.net> wrote:
I have lived here for 10 years.  About 2 years ago we had some heavy late winter rains.   Now after all of this time one would have thought the creosote from the electric pole would have leached out.....but it hadn't.  It killed the shrubbery in that area deader than a doornail. 
 
I have some neighbors who had access to old railroad ties retired from a real railroad even.  They lost all of their shrubbery after some heavy rains. 
 
I would not use them myself.....but that is experience talking. 
 
Gloria, Texas
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