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Re: Natural Clay raised beds and quackgrass

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Charlie- I have areas that have this clay too and you can actucally mold it
and make things with it! Luclily it is about 1foot down and is covered by
hard pan(!) when has been removed mostly and amended with all of the ggod
stuff. I don't see why this would work- the water just seems to sit there
doesn't go down for days- have tried adding gypsum and everything I could
think of to make it into real soil- to no avail- so just make mostly sunken
or rasied bedsand hope nothing  needs to go deeper than about 2 feet.I read
where if you add sand it becomes like concrete- . Hmm- Clay- plus sand in
raised beds=permanent(almost) borders??Anyone tried this? The only thing I
can think of(not that I know that much about gardening) is that the darned
quackgrass is rooted there and is there to stay.Istay it seems- Too bad we
can't eat that stuff.It just pushes up thru my newspaper and leaves and
straw like it was nothing- Suggestions on how to manage it? More compost
just seems to encourage it!-Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: ...Charlie... <csimpson@preferred.com>
To: Sqft <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 6:17 PM
Subject: Natural raised beds


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> I am trying the following method to provide "sides" and "ends" to my
raised
> beds. I have rototilled several 3' wide by varying length beds to a depth
of
> 12 or so inches. I then "pulled" with a hoe, the soil, into "banks" about
6"
> high, to form the borders, next I filled these depressions with compost
> thereby creating "natural" raised beds. Since my soil is red clay I expect
> the borders to harden rather like adobe. Will let you all know how this
> works out.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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