Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Soil cement is easier in molds than moving blocks around after they set up.
That's double the work. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the
streets after them.

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On 5/7/2009 at 9:45 PM Andeanfx wrote:

>Paul, sounds like the same proportions except being thinner.  The thinker 
>mix is often extruded into blocks which are immediately laid with some 
>additional water to help them stick together.  Dean
>
>Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin
>Franklin
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>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 12:13 PM
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] raised bed material
>
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>>
>> Actually it's a wet, pourable mix of about one part Portland to ten
parts
>> ordinary dirt, not too sandy or too clay, no organic debris in it. It
>sets
>> up like concrete and it's rigid and fairly strong, but you can scratch
>it.
>> You don't ram it, just pour into a mold. It ends up white. I've
>> experimented with it. It'll make sidewalks too.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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>> On 5/5/2009 at 12:42 AM Andeanfx wrote:
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>>>Not that I really have the energy as chronologically I am a bit younger
>>>than
>>>you but physiologically is a different story but by soil cement are you
>>>referring to a mix of sandy soil and Portland cement such as used in
>>>rammed
>>>earth housing?  Dean
>>>
>>>Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin
>>>Franklin