Gene -- please describe your "planting board". It sounds like something I
could use. How do you use it? How do you make it?
I should have known. I had put it away for another year and had to go
get it to take measurements. You probably expect me to remember the
measurements. Hah!
It is a one-by-four board about three and a half feet long with seven
dowels sticking out. I drilled three-quarter-inch holes every six
inches part way through the board, inserted three-quarter-inch dowels
that protrude two inches. I drilled pilot holes from the other side
and put in countersunk screws to secure the dowels, one big screw per
dowel. Can't remember how deep I drilled, probably a half inch.
Some years later I reinforced the board by screwing another one-by
onto the top. I prepare the soil, then lay the board down and step on
it to push the dowels into the soil. Voila, the planting holes. You
could use a two-by instead of two one-bys, but it needs to be strong
enough to take your weight when you stomp on it.
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