Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Michael Nevin <mikepnevin@yahoo.ca>]

Hi - following this discussion, I think I see two different types of raised beds:

-one type comes from massing up soil by digging, double-digging;

-the other type comes from building some kind of structure or container on top of existing ground and basically importing some planting medium or mix of soil, compost, mulch etc.

Is there a term to distinguish these types of raised growing bed?

Cheers, Mike

--- On Mon, 5/4/09, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] raised bed material
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Received: Monday, May 4, 2009, 1:56 PM

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.
>
>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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