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Re: Pat myself on the back time....

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Margaret- Seems like all that soil and compost would have cost as much as
the exavator!LOL! You will be glad when in a few years you have the best
soil on the block. I did my raised beds lasagnia style but dealt with the
same problem- crushed red rock over black plastic in a moblile home lot- in
seemed to go down forever all mixed with dirt-eeck what a mess. my vegies
are doing fine in their raised beds- just have to water everyday- Now the
fun begins for you- PLANTS!-Good luck-Teri
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Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: Pat myself on the back time....


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> ........OUCH..did you know you can hurt yourself doing that??
> <Happydancing>
> Finally..its' done!!! For those of you who hadn't heard ..we just bought a
> house (30yrs old), there had, in the dim and distant past, been a garden
in
> the back..how could we tell?    Someone..may they never eat a good veggie
> again, had used crushed rock as a mulch over the entire area (we're
talking
> 25 x 25).  We found this under a 2" layer of soil/grass, when a friend
loaned
> us their roto-tiller to prep for raised beds....CLUNKCLANK!!
>  <insert wailing grinding of teeth and various cuss words>
>
>   After much puzzling, and grumbling we finally decided  (not having money
> for an excavator to dig it out) wo just cover the area with weed mat and
> build the raised beds on top..covering the paths in bark mulch.
>
> For a U shaped bed with 2 sides @16' x 3' with  the connecting side@ 16' x
> 4', and another 4' x 9' bed in the middle of the U (visualize 3' paths
> between them) we ended up using 100 bags of Top Soil, 50 bags of Composted
> Peat Hummus and 30 bags of Mulch...each of them wieghing in at
@40lbs!!!!!!!
>
>
>    We used 2x10 boards that I screwed together using 2x2 stakes in the
corners
>  for added strength..leaving the stakes 2' high(they came that way)  next
> year when we have more $$ we are going to raise the beds another 10" in
ht.
> We just finished doing it Saturday(5/26) .....
> .........  now on my next day off (Tuesday) I can go get the PLANTS!!!!
>
> Plants....hmmm.... 24 tomatoes, 12 bell peppers, 2 zuchinni, 6 cukes, 2
seed
> potatoes, assorted pole beans, carrots, onion sets, garlic, beets, (I'll
have
> to wait for fall's cooler temps for lettuce/peas/brussel sprouts?)...
> .....any other ideas...I still have 6 - 8 squares  thats not counting the
36
> marigolds and 10 petunias I have  flowers or veggies (NOT OKRA!!!)
>
> Margaret (still panting..and aching)
> zone 6b//Maryland-suburban DC
>
>
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