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Re: Rabbit Defense System - Use a Brick !

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Thanks, Bill!  We'll have our work/study/interpretive dance cut out for us!

Mary

Bill wrote:

> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> >I like your brick idea...we've thought of that before but I never had the
> numbers (tee hee) to help me visualize it before.  Thanks. Mary
>
> *See why guys like numbers?  And why we don't want you gals to learn how to
> actually use them!  LOL
>
> 33 cents apiece, but you CAN take then with when you move, if renting...
> Cement brick is half that. Level, Super, or crown 1-2" in 10', The center may
> sag eventually, so DON'T let it be low!  (Don't till the path.)  Black
> Plastic, 1" sand, (play or mortar or builder's coarse,) which helps the final
> levelling, and any EXTRA crowning of brick in the center you require.  Crown
> the center of the pathways, 1/8 to 1/4".
>
> No brick against wood, 1/4-1" sand.  Pea gravel here is best, to keep wood
> dry.  Optional if it's rainy there... make it 1 1/2-2" & put pvc which can be
> drainage along the edges.  You can also separate the brick by placing it down
> with a 3/8 dia dowel temporary, tie a string to one end to make it easy to
> retrieve from between bricks... fill between with 1/2-1" sand, 1/2" when later
> packed, (soft sprinkle of water, walking, by time, try too hard to tamp it and
> you move the next brick which ruins easily achieved perfection.
>
> I set every brick with a 3'long bubble level, the level is one reminder, the
> length is simply a straightedge.  It comes out like cement under if well done.
>  germans use this INDOORS in commercial establishments.  Just catching on
> here.) ...and the topper is fine pea gravel,  say 1-2" deep, between bricks,
> maybe 1/4-3/8" apart.  Not 1/2"  If 1/8, just sand.  Depends on looks,
> width/slop you have in beds/path, and between path and beds slop, which is
> adjustable... just about like, laying tile in a house, slop at the edges, not
> on only one edge.  It's ALL easy.  Just sore knees and back, taking TIME to do
> the brick laying well.  If you elect to do one path ea mo/week, backup and
> redo 3 bricks, as tthey slide, step over the end bricks in the interim.
> (Brick/sand is "tamped" first into place by big rubber mallet.) Drains well,
> looks NICE!  No pvc hassle.  Some gravel could have pretty color interspesed.
> I'd not use white, personally.  Black plastic and gravel much cheaper and
> easier, well cheaper.  Takes more maint later, than brick...!
>
> Perimeter brick is held by 2x4-6-8.  Layed flat and staked by the fence posts
> themselves maybe.  HALF at least of this extends beyond the fence.  It acts as
> a wheel paver for the lawnmower, or prettier, use brick again.  The last brick
> will be mostly under the fence w/noone walking on it regularly so it won'r
> move much.  Now, no weed eating at all.
>
> Worth the work?  For me , yes.  (Also I'm cheap.) And can be done a bit at a
> time, if leveling is first basically established overall.  A hose is the BEST
> water level, tho' the 1' clear ends they make help.  Only a laser is better.
> Forget bubbles for 20 feet if you want cheap perfection.  Use a hose.  Fill it
> up.  Tie one end 1 foot above your base level point to a firm stake.  Have a
> pint pitcher of water or gal milk jug, to adjust the other end.  When it's
> exactly full, mark the second stake with a marker.  Perfection over hundreds
> of feet.
>
> Pattern determines whether you have a 2' path, or +/- a few inches.  Remember,
> if these 6 beds are layed 2 beds by 3 beds, pick a central path that will be
> decidedly wider for use and appearance.  A $10 chair would even fit on
> weekends... esp if the two central most beds were 2' shorter, you'd have a
> keen micro patio!!!  And a wheel barrow there will fit, with room to walk
> around it!
>
> The change make it architecturally interesting.  DO THIS ON GRAPH PAPER!  1 sq
> per ft at first!!! & make many designs... EVEN bad ones, because you or
> hubbmeister will take pieces of them and come up with a spin that will be cute
> or functional.  WALK THRU IT in your head!!!!  THIS step is important.
> PICTURE IT and BE in it.  here is where brick is keen.  Lay out, w/o plastic
> or leveling yet, the path outline in brick.  Walk it with the wheel barrow.
> Pretend to dig the tubers, pluck the tomatoes, kneel at the strawbwrries.  The
> path there must be knee to heel + 2" on each end.  2' will do if you're short
> and tight on space/brick, but barely.
>
> I picture 2 beds, short ends 3' apart.
> Next pair, 2-21/2 ft away, parallel.  Next bed pair, same.  NOW... go back to
> the center pair.  Maybe lop off 1-1 1/2 ft from each, for the center eye-land!
>  Instead of lopping them off, you could move them back the same distance.
> Neat pattern... a squashed hex.  Open center for work, eye appeal, glass of
> wine. Corners are now (at fence perimeter) bigger by a ft.
>
> Easier to turn corners with tools.  Perhaps a brid feeder, weather vane,
> raingauge, stanadard tree (dwarf).  Play with this.  When done, get a gardener
> frien, prefferably old or smart, to have 1 glass of wine to loosen but not
> muddle, and let them pick the best 3 designs.  Like (Ok, 'as')in designing a
> house, you get out what you put in.  The brick can be purchased and done, one
> path at a paycheck, as long as first basic leveling is done first.  It can be
> cool!  Make it fun....!  :>)
>
> This'll make you want to give and get a massage and tone YOUR numbers! ;>)
> DMSO works for soreness, but that's another list.
>
> A 3' green plastic covered with 2x3 holes???
> What's a cute, rabbir resistant fence guys?
> The county ag guy should know the reccommended height.  3' is my bet. 30"
> fair.  2' Good. 18" poor. 1' somewhat effective.  (It also throws them a bit,
> if it's hard to discern where the top of the fence is I feel.)
>
> Mmmmm.  Organically fed rabbit!!!
> ---------------------
> Discovered an everbearing raspberry, Baba-[Red] take cool-cold, and hot
> weather, lg berry, like boysenberry, sweet.  Home Depot carries them.
>
> Gotta get back to my mushrooms!!!
> Bill
>
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