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Here’s a link to the current monthly garden bread for anyone interested. Lots of tips there. Diana in Wisconsin just started this new thread yesterday.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4228224/posts
Ping!
Mr. GG2 just screws together 2 4x8 beds for me about every 5 years out of the cheapest 2x10 lumber from Lowes. I fill them up with bags of cheap potting soil and 1 bag of black cow turned into each bed and I’m in business. I grow an enormous amount of veggies in those two beds and a few containers with tomatoes, Japanese egg plant, cucumber and that expensive flat leaf kale that you have to pay a fortune for at Sprouts.
Concrete Blocks. Two high with a cap block. Cattle panel frames welded into 8” high 4x8 foot sections with chicken wire on them as cat excluder devices. Triangular tomato and pepper cages made from cattle panels that can fold around the plants. Discarded 3 gallon shrub pots for early time wind protection. Etc.
I’m in the process of putting stepping stones 6 inches deep. Gophers eat the roots.
I’ll put some vertical stones at the perimeter.
I’ll put a ground level walkway of stepping stones.
Then I’ll put chicken wire gates to keep the rabbits out.
My old cat made this unnecessary.
Not to digress, but heard yesterday that bananas used to have seeds. Haven’t bothered to confirm.
No milorganite, please.
Think it through, it’s chock full of all kinds of heavy metals and uh, “stuff” that finds it’s way into the sewer but does not compost out no matter how much it’s composted.
Use it on your ornamentals but don’t eat it.
Btt
Saw a video of a guy who experimented with foam added to concrete and using a mold to make thin, interlocking panels that you could lift/carry.
I had a neighbor gift me some old rough sawn oak that’s not nice enough to build anything but raised beds with. In a few years when they rot, I’ll find something else.
Sawmills sell the edge trimmings by the bundle that are bark on one side but are still board like.
I’ve used blocks and rocks but the added 8 inches takes up space and subtract from your reach.