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Dolomite/Rock Phosphate

Hi all,

Have been busy building 2 more raised beds, 4' X4', with the most marvelous
3" X 3" (true) scrap lumber from the frames in which stone slabs are
imported. I make them 5 tiers high and interlock the corners with alternate
overlaps, each course "edge nailed" to the previous course.

I have also built 2 raised Asparagus beds. One bed is a "temporary" bed
using the scrap timbers for falsework as I had not acquired any concrete
blocks. I did this because all our warm winter weather up here in Tacoma,
Wa, caused some of my yearling seed starts to  produce shoots and I felt
that I had to get those "sooners" in the ground. I bit the bullet and BOUGHT
78 of the new style concrete blocks (i.e... 7 5/8" X 7 5/8" X 15 5/8" with
the flush ends.) I picked blocks that had a 1" sq rebar groove in one end as
when I move to permanent digs I will use concrete to tie them together. For
now I simply laid them in 3 courses of 26 blocks, interlocked them by
alternate overlapping corners and further added to rigidity by filling all
of the holes with soil and manure giving me 52 planters, each with a soil
depth of 22 1/2".

I now have strawberry Xplants and seeded growth of spinach, carrots,
lettuce, gr. onions, beets....plus yellow and red onion sets and some garlic
chive Xplnts from a pot.

I am very pleased with this and am absolutely certain that all the hauling,
lifting and placing of 40# concrete blocks, filling the holes (as I went)
and shoveling in 15" of soil and manure in which to plant the Asparagus
yearlings was worth the effort, and I am going to remove the false work from
the first bed and set annother 78 blocks around it after the May/June
planting frenzy.

The block bed is made of L's with 10 block by 3 block legs which yields an
inside dimension of 39" X 149" X 22 3/4 " high when filled in.

I left the false work bed a few inched smaller so that when I re do with
blocks I will not have an interference problem and can easily fill in.

In my haste to beat, or keep up with, the emerging sprouts, I forgot to
include some Dolomite and Rock Phosphate in the soil. I seem to remember
reading somewhere that it was not good to apply them together.

Does anyone out there have any factual information regarding applying
Dolomite Lime and Pock Phosphate together, and if not cool, how should I
stage the applications?

TIA,

DT (aka Dore Tyler)  dee_tee@msn.com
Doing his own thing in the privacy of his own garden.



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