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Raised beds
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 20:52:24 +0000, Alan Holmes wrote
(in article ): "JennyC" wrote in message ... "gardenlen" wrote in message ... best height is about 10 to 12"s you can go higher see our page for pics etc.,. on how we do our raised beds. Nothing obviously shown for raised beds! don't understand what you mean alan?? we have 2 pages with pictures and descriptions of raised beds that we have done. Alan - look at http://www.lensgarden.com.au/straw_bale_garden.htm Thanks, that went straight to it. Very impresive but I don't think I could cope with all that straw. What puzzles me most about raised beds is, where do people get all the soil to fill them? Alan, we have only one raised bed (for veg). We covered the bottom with layers of thick cardboard straight over the existing grass (I think this was a tip from Janet Baraclough), and then put loads and loads of horse manure in, mixed in with some of our own dried grass (we have lots of long grass which we cut twice a year and then we leave the dry grass in a large container to dry more and rot down a little). We topped it up with some bought in top soil, but most of the "filling" was manure and grass. We are lucky in that we live in a rural area and have friends with horses who are delighted to find a home for their horse manure. The second year, of course we had to top it up a bit since the level had dropped a bit - again, we dug in more horse manure. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK bed and breakfast near Ludlow: http://www.stonybrook-ludlow.co.uk Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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