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Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works

From: "Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.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: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:47:37 -0500

Ken I did that until the property owner above me clear cut his land. Now when it rains I have a small river running across my property. The best way I have found to prevent my gardens from washing away is to use raised beds deeply staked to the ground and that doesn't always work. I'm at the foot of a mountain and we get more rain then the surrounding area even when there is little rainfall. I'm hoping in a few more years the overgrown on that part of them mountain will be big enough to prevent my flooding problem.

Norma

On 1/19/08, Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote:

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 72º 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

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[Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works, Norma Sutton, 01/19/2008
- Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works, Ken Hargesheimer, 01/19/2008
  - Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works, TradingPostPaul, 01/19/2008
    - Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works, Ken Hargesheimer, 01/19/2008
      - Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works, Norma Sutton, 01/20/2008
    - Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works, Norma Sutton, 01/19/2008
  - Re: [Livingontheland] Gardens that Last for Years - Raised Bed Gardens, a Technique that Works, Pumpkin Lady, 01/24/2008