Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

Fairly extreme terracing, hmm? It's always about adapting best methods to 
wherever we hang our hat. To begin with we have shallow topsoil so it needs 
raised beds to get soil depth. Also we're on a slight slope, not bad but 
enough to rule out flat gardening. So I've made a LOT of framed beds with 
salvage 2" lumber, wider boards on the downside. Sides sit in a shallow 
trough with dirt fill around to help keep water inside the bed. And since the 
ground is uneven I make 8' sections 3' wide and join the next 8' section a 
little higher or lower so beds can be as long or short as needed on uneven 
ground. All screwed together cheap, no fancy brackets or kits. Somewhere else 
it all might be different, huh?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/1/2011 at 8:58 PM Marty Kraft wrote:

>I would like that information.
>
>Marty
>On May 1, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Ken Hargesheimer wrote:
>
>> I visited a farm in Honduras that had a 72° slope.  Had been farmed
>> for 6 years. During Hurricane Mitch with 30 inches of rain, no
>> erosion!!!  The farmer had built benches one meter wide and each
>> one meter below the next one with a very slight slope to a grassed
>> waterway.
>>
>> That could be adjusted to be used anywhere in the world.  I can
>> send info to anyone who wants it.
>>
>> Ken H
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