Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

I can't say what's best for everyone, Dean; depends on what's available and
what you can work with. But to make it fairly high you probably want cement
blocks and LOTS of fill dirt. 

I use salvage lumber from Home Despot. Not redwood but it'll likely last
longer than I will. But if I had more time and energy and expected to last
many years I'd use soil cement. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
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On 5/3/2009 at 9:56 PM Andeanfx wrote:

>As long as we are on raised beds. we are looking at moving and being able
>to buy again.  SO, we will be able to treat things as though they were our
>own.
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>What is the best material for building the walls of fairly high raised
>beds.  Concrete has chemicals in it, plastic is not good, rock would take
>up a large amount of space.  I am not comfortable with cedar, redwood
>would seem to be good but pretty expensive, teak well.......  What is a
>guy to do?????  Dean
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