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  • From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:53:24 -0800 (PST)

Below is a good example of taking a principle and applying it to the local situation.  I live on a plains flat as a table top for miles.  I have been on a farm in Honduras that did not use sides??.  The farm sloped 72ยบ and each bed [one meter wide] was one meter below the upper one.  The bed is sloped back into the hill to control runoff those rare time there is a downpour.  During H. Mitch she got one meter of rain without eroison. It works.
 
Ken

TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:
I'd agree, sides aren't usually required. Let me add the only reason I use lumber sides is I can't dig down enough without digging impervious subsoil, so I have to build up and need sides to hold the soil and mulch in place.  Also my ground is sloping and level framed beds avoid erosion. Once done
they're done and succeeding years are sooo easy. Another factor is our climate which is drier than most. Framed beds do contain the irrigation water better than beds without sides.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

On 1/19/2008 at 11:23 AM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

I have had a copy of the info from OK for several years.  I used boards [salvaged] for my first beds in 1982. When they rotted, I
decided to not use sides of any kind. That is what I recommend but if one>wants to use sides, that is fine. They are not worth the time and>trouble to me.
> Ken 


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