RE: Plastic Lumber
- Subject: RE: [cg] Plastic Lumber
- From: J* N* H*
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:28:49 -0400
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We get
plastic timbers called “Novawood” from Obex, Inc., in Stamford, CT. Get in touch with Celeste Johnson (203) 975-9094 c*@juno.com Good
luck. Let me know if you need
further details. Jack Hale -----Original
Message----- Len, Jack Hale from Knox Parks
uses the plastic board and I believe others on the listserve do as well.
Hopefully, you should get an answer from them soon. Remember, this is the
height of the growing season, so an answer may take a few days to make it's way
back to you. Best wishes, Adam Honigman -----Original Message----- Adam, Thanks for your references. I
recently found the Chicago Botanical Garden website and am pursuing some of
that resource. The City Farmer site was a great suggestion. Where did you obtain the plastic timbers
from? Len Sheard -----
Original Message -----
To: l*@wi-net.com
; community_garden@mallorn.com Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001
10:01 AM Subject: RE:
[cg] Elevate Garden Beds Len, 1) This
was excerpted from a response to a similar request (i.e., how to create a
regular raised) by Jack Hale, a master gardener and CG garden program
administrator: "In our
smaller gardens on bad soil, we often build raised beds that are 4' by 8' and a
foot deep. We use recycled plastic landscape timbers that are about 3"
thick. It takes 12 timbers, 4 of them cut in half, plus about 30 6"
galvanized twist deck spikes to make one bed. It holds just over 1 yard of
soil. I figure a little over $100 per bed when I'm budgeting. There are cheaper
ways to do raised beds - making them bigger, for instance - but this size is
very solid and easy to build. A group of people can pick them up and move them
after they have been constructed. They make a nice manageable unit within the
garden." Note:
The plastic landscape timbers are non-reactive and do not leach chemicals into
the soil. If you choose to use wood - USE ONLY
UNTREATED WOOD. NASTY THINGS LIKE ARSENIC AND OTHER CHEMICALS LEACH INTO THE
SOIL FROM ALL PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER, MAKING IT TOXIC. 2) For a
senior in a wheelchair, we made an enabled bed in our garden in brick about 2'
high, 3' wide and 9 foot long next to one of our back garden paths. We may
build a hollow square one ( with one of the sides missing) in the future as an
alternative design. Here is the website of the garden I volunteer in:
http://www.clintoncommunitygarden.org 3)
You'll probably be interested in these enabled gardening sites: The Wonderful
Canadian city farmer site: http://www.cityfarmer.org/urbagnotes1.html#notes The
commercial garden forever site is a great source of tools and enabled gardening
aids. http://www.gardenforever.com/pages/artenabled.htm Search through
this site for information on enabled gardening, the Chicago Botanic
garden is a pioneer http://www.chicago-botanic.org/Images/explore/enable/EnableGuide.pdf Once
you're established as a garden, please consider joining the American Community
Gardening Association. For 25 bucks a year you instantly become part of an
international organization (we have Canadians, Japanese and a coupla European
members) of community gardeners. Check out this link for all the goodies you
can get as a member: http://www.communitygarden.org/about/membership.html
There
are karmic benefits to joining the ACGA as well. Happy
gardening, please let us know how it works out for you, Adam
Honigman -----Original
Message----- I am looking
for plans for elevated garden beds to be used by gardeners in wheelchairs or
those that have difficulty bending down to garden at ground level. Len Iola
Community Garden Iola, WI |
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