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- From: Mike <mike.lists@mlxvi.org>
- To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:28:25 +1200
Gail What were your raised beds made of? A wooden border on top of the ground? Or some other material? Did you have any posts into the ground? Mike Gail Hoskisson Loper wrote: On 7/5/08 6:55 PM, "Liz" <liz@allslash.org> wrote:Just a personal story about permanent beds: I used to have a much larger garden, but my work was so time-consuming for several years that I cut way back, and part of the garden area got completely overgrown. I began renewing the neglected section this year, and converting the old ground level beds to raised beds.I am a convinced and committed convert to raised beds. I started building them and growing in them when I lived in Moab. The soil on my place there was basically sand and river rock left after the creek nearby cut a new channel a hundred years ago and my home was built on the old flood plain. When I moved to Western Colorado my new husband knew it was a given that I would want to move my raised beds AND the soil in them over here with me. It caused a few raised eyebrows from family and neighbors who don't understand that soil is not just dirt. My beds range from 5 to 11 inches deep and they sit on about 6 inches of native topsoil. Down more than 6 inches into the native soil you find not much but fractured sandstone. I have never had permanent beds that were not raised beds. What I am curious about, Liz is how you are converting your permanent beds to raised beds and how deep or I guess a better way to ask it is how tall will the raised beds be. I would think that they would be wonderfully productive since you're starting with greatly improved soil as a base. Gail _______________________________________________ Livingontheland mailing list Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland |
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[Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Tradingpost, 07/05/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Liz, 07/05/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Gail Hoskisson Loper, 07/11/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Liz, 07/11/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Gail Hoskisson Loper, 07/13/2008
- Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS, Liz, 07/14/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Gail Hoskisson Loper, 07/13/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Mike, 07/11/2008
- Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS, Gail Hoskisson Loper, 07/13/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Liz, 07/11/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Gail Hoskisson Loper, 07/11/2008
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Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS,
Liz, 07/05/2008
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