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Re: OT ;-) Stockade style SFG

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> Hi all,
> Please visit my page where I show what I did with some extra hardwood
> logs I had in my back yard last summer. I haven't heard any of you say
> you've done a raised bed this way so maybe this is a new variation on an
> old theme!
> Any Questions, please ask!
> Fred
> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=81654&a=1590502

Very interesting.  At the permanent grounds of the Kansas City,
Kansas (USA) renaissance festival they just added new flower/
veggie beds.  They did use treated landscape timbers buried in 
the ground endwise.  they stick up between 2-4 feet.  The height
of all the timbers in any individual bed being the same.  The dirt
comes to within 6 inches of the top (don't know if it is filled
all the way to the ground or if they have a platform in there.
The spaces between the beds are large enough for a wheel chair
to turn around and the purpose of raising the beds that high for
some of the beds seems to be so that the herbs and flowers are
high enough for someone in a wheelchair to view, smell, touch.

Your approach with staggered ends is visually appealing but 
I prefer to have some place to sit (however briefly) while I
plant, weed and harvest.  I really like how it looks though,
I have a number of trees that were killed by a surprise snow
storm a few years back and I had so much wood to cut that
many pieces were cut to be about 6 foot long and I would 
come back and cut them up some more later.  Well later
still has not come, I think I might try your idea.

Anybody have an idea for how long something like this might
last in the ground?  Or should I debark the inside and paint
the inside also...

Ron Souliere  (whose original beds are Pressure Treated,
and while not 100% convinced of the dangers, I am not
planning on using PT again for garden beds...)


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