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cinder blocks

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Cinder Blocks:
Ours are only one high. But, if I needed them taller, I would secure them 
by driving rebar down through the center holes, then adding dirt to the 
interior so they would still be useful. Or using rebar driven outside the 
'wall' so you'd be certain it held ok. I'd probably layer newspaper, hay, 
or some other barrier between the two layers so I wouldn't be filling up a 
3' hole with good potting or topsoil just to plant in the top 2" of dirt.
They do increase the warmth somewhat inside the beds and inside the holes. 
I haven't done a full season inside one set yet to know exactly when they 
become detrimental (texas, remember, any confinement becomes detrimental 
along about June.)
New topic, weeds: my nemesis!
We have a weed, no idea what it is, I'm very weed ignorant, only that I 
have tons of different kinds. This one has a little 'rosette' of greenery 
growing around a base of a tall (4 foot) dead stalk. I've been taking the 
shovel and breaking up the earth under the rosettes, and lo, a HUMONGOUS 
root comes out. This looks like a reddish horse radish root! some are 
massive. I'll be sure to keep from mowing some of these guys in the pasture 
so I can figure out what they look like while growing, but in the interim, 
any clues?
It's really very soul-satisfying to root them out, they come free easily 
and you really feel like you've done something when you break one out of 
the ground.

I spent the afternoon (between grubbing for mystery weeds), replanting 
lettuce seed. The Cracoviensis needed to be thinned, so I moved out a lot 
of that, and I also seeded a new raised bed with Monet cutting lettuce. 
Have Red Deer Tongue about ready to plant out, and seem to have misplaced 
my Antares Oak Leaf. I normally just buy 3 - 5 types and blend them all 
together with a spinach, & mustard  to make my own mesclun mix that will 
last (almost) all season. Anyone else do this?
A funny story. I planted Brandywine tomatoes from very elderly seed. I 
FORGOT I'd also seeded 1/2 a flat with Brandywine from a packet I bought at 
the feedstore. Now they all have come up. I'm trying to figure out what 
other 'island beds' I can create around the yard to grow all these 
tomatoes, should they all survive to transplanting time.
martha (tx) http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/5505/index.html


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