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Re: Natural Clay raised beds and quackgrass

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I think the problem is that it would become a trough -as someone else said-
unless you could fashion some short lengths of pvc out of the side to help
it drain? I do not plan on doing this- it is 1 foot down and I hope it stays
there as I build build build my soil on top of the nasty stuff!-Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Missen <billmissen@sprint.ca>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Natural Clay raised beds and quackgrass


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> What a great idea! The clay around here is heavy but will not stay
together
> after it dries. It will crack up. Does your clay stay together? You could
> mold a border and let it dry into a border.
> bill missen.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Teri Epp" <kitty@cwnet.com>
> To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Natural Clay raised beds and quackgrass
>
>
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> > Charlie- I have areas that have this clay too and you can actucally mold
> it
> > and make things with it! Luclily it is about 1foot down and is covered
by
> > hard pan(!) when has been removed mostly and amended with all of the
ggod
> > stuff. I don't see why this would work- the water just seems to sit
there
> > doesn't go down for days- have tried adding gypsum and everything I
could
> > think of to make it into real soil- to no avail- so just make mostly
> sunken
> > or rasied bedsand hope nothing  needs to go deeper than about 2 feet.I
> read
> > where if you add sand it becomes like concrete- . Hmm- Clay- plus sand
in
> > raised beds=permanent(almost) borders??Anyone tried this? The only thing
I
> > can think of(not that I know that much about gardening) is that the
darned
> > quackgrass is rooted there and is there to stay.Istay it seems- Too bad
we
> > can't eat that stuff.It just pushes up thru my newspaper and leaves and
> > straw like it was nothing- Suggestions on how to manage it? More compost
> > just seems to encourage it!-Teri
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: ...Charlie... <csimpson@preferred.com>
> > To: Sqft <sqft@listbot.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 6:17 PM
> > Subject: Natural raised beds
> >
> >
> > > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> > >
> > > I am trying the following method to provide "sides" and "ends" to my
> > raised
> > > beds. I have rototilled several 3' wide by varying length beds to a
> depth
> > of
> > > 12 or so inches. I then "pulled" with a hoe, the soil, into "banks"
> about
> > 6"
> > > high, to form the borders, next I filled these depressions with
compost
> > > thereby creating "natural" raised beds. Since my soil is red clay I
> expect
> > > the borders to harden rather like adobe. Will let you all know how
this
> > > works out.
> > >
> > > Charlie
> > >
> > >
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