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Re: Natural Clay raised beds and quackgrass

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What a great idea! The clay around here is heavy but will not stay together
after it dries. It will crack up. Does your clay stay together? You could
mold a border and let it dry into a border.
bill missen.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Teri Epp" <kitty@cwnet.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:04 AM
Subject: 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
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> > 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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