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Raised beds

Dear all,

As you may know, this is my first year gardening at my present
location.
We're going to be doing square foot gardening.
My now cleared garden plot is on southern facing, sloping land.
However, I feel it is sloping too much. How does one know if it is
sloping too much? Also, since it was previously
forest (we decided on a spot that did not have large trees, or even
many trees) it has lots and lots of tree roots under the forest matt.
So we are going to raise the beds, more on the front than on the back,
but raised nonetheless.

We do not have conventional bed raising materials. What we do have is
wood, lots and lots of downed trees, which we can split into wedges.
We have stone, but at the current time we do not have cement (although
on Tuesday we'll be going into town and can get a bag or two). We also
have some cement shingles which my husband is considering using. We
don't know if they're strong enough at this point. I guess we'll find
out soon enough. If we do use them for part of the beds, we'd likely
wire them together through the holes and have a double layer of them.

Does any one have any ideas about what we could use, or how we could
use, any of the naturally available materials that we have? 

We do not have any spare cement blocks, nor do with have the money
with which to buy them (she says after just ordering 2 books from
Amazon.com - one on organic gardening previously borrowed from the
library, and the other on raising rabbits and other such livestock).
We really are on a limited to non-existent budget, and we need to keep
the building lumber that we have for building something to live in.
Replacing whatever makes the beds raised in even a year is not a
problem.

Dara


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