On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:27:05 -0700, "Dwayne"
wrote:

A Good solution to your problem, Genevieve, would be to build a nice
permanent raised bed for your asperagus. I did that in Arkansas with
landscape timbers, and had asparagus to give away. Watering was easy also,
because I designed my raised bed to be as long as my 75 ft soaker hose.
Once a week, unless it was very hot and dry, I would turn the water on for
a couple of hours, until I could stick my finger down into the dirt all the
way and still reach mud.


I'm trying hard to be able to build raised beds this year
and I'm thinking about landscape timbers.

We can buy them locally - they're unfinished (no creosote or
other nasties). This is good.

Do you know how long they should last before rotting away?
They'll be in contact with the ground of course.

Pat
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