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  • From: Gail Hoskisson Loper <loghillgail@msn.com>
  • To: LOL <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] PERMANENT BEDS
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:58:05 -0600

The ones I brought over from Moab were made of 2X12's, 1X12's and 1X6 lumber
I salvaged from an old waterbed frame. They are all basically a wooden
border as you describe it. They sit right on the existing topsoil.

For some of them I used a 4X4 post in the corner just for stability. There
are no posts in the ground.

Gail


On 7/11/08 4:28 PM, "Mike" <mike.lists@mlxvi.org> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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