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Re: Raised Beds in England

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

In article <00d601bf434a$34445e80$948701d4@hea15540>, Margaret Curtis
<CURTIS@bigwig.net> writes
>    Hello my names Alan I live in North Linclonshire, England.
>    I am a follower of the Geoff Hamilton approach to organic 
>    gardening.  I currently have 3 raised beds which follow a three 
>    year crop rotation plan.
>    I am interested in sq footing, but have one or two question.
>                                    1) how do you deal with crop 
>    rotaion, so you don't get a build up of diseases.
>                                    2) pH how do you deal with the 
>    different needs of plants in the same plot.

Most  plants in actuality seem to like a pH of around 6.5, they might
have a preference for one way or the other, but not so much as it is a
problem. We haven't even tested our plots  for the last couple of years.
 
>    I note some sq footers use cedar wood as a soil retainer, what a 
>    waste of beautiful wood.  I use 1"x6' treated wood thats been well 
>    weathered, I've not had any problems.
>    
We have also used pressure treated wood. But there may be potential
problems with some of the chemicals in the preservative (typically,
chrome, arsenic) leaching into the soil - the evidence isn't good for
this though IMO - a Deja.com search on some of the gardening groups will
turn up plenty of debate.
Of course if there are problems you might not find out for a long while.
> 
>    P.S are there any sq footers in England.

Well we aren't really but there are a few about. Colin Shaw has an
Organic gardening website that has a bit on his experiences with sqfting
as well.

http://www.organic.mcmail.com/
-- 
Chris French, Leeds


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