Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>]

I think the depth of the raised beds depends on what you want to put in them. Certainly you could start with an 12" bed and pile dirt on it as a huegel bed if you need deeper. If the fill is really asphalt I'd probably go deeper, if its just dirty gravel I'd probably be a little grateful for it.

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Jennifer Hamilton <jenham@mac.com> wrote:

From: Jennifer Hamilton <jenham@mac.com>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Gardening on Construction Fill
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 5:02 PM

I normally lurk on this list...but I need some advice. I want to start 
a garden on my new place, but I am now finding that the area I want to 
plant is probably construction fill. I'm finding lots of asphalt chunks.

Would it be worth my time to sift them all out or should I just go 
straight to raised beds? If I need raised beds, how deep should they 
be? I was originally thinking 12", but a local nursery advised 18". I 
hadn't really planned on needing to buy dirt!

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks.
Jennifer Hamilton
Santa Rosa, CA
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