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Re: raised bed via cinder blocks .. small problem

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C'mon guys, it ain't that hard...

Take a piece of more or less level land, with bumps and twists....run an
evil rototiller through it to break it all up into loose soil (maybe cut out
the sod with a sod cutter before).

Take a rake and rake it level. If you need a reference set up a line with a
spirit level to guide you, but frankly this ain't the Great Pyramid so
eyeball level oughtta be OK...

Or a pan of water....

The key in leveling loose soil is to rake it even and then pack it down
even, filling in any low spots as you go.

Alternatively, cut out the sod and take a spirit level out there and see how
far from level you are, and just dig out with the appropriate tool, until
you have  a level area to lay the blocks.

Lots of our ancestors and predecessors in this hemisphere and others built
amazing structures like terraces and canals and stuff, so we should be able
to do tolerably well with cinder blocks making sq ft gardens....

Frank--he's levelling with you here---and agrees that backfilling with sand
or even fine gravel will facilitate leveling
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Munkachy <fwmunkachy@earthlink.net>
To: Jeff Taylor <jltaylor@indiana.edu>
Cc: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: raised bed via cinder blocks .. small problem


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>Jeff,
>    And all others on the list...After thinking on it for a while, I
>backed out on the cinder block plan for the same reasons, mainly too hard
>to make level (among other reasons, like weight, etc,) If I were to do
>blocks perfectly level, I think I would remove about two inches of earth
>and back fill with sand. Sand is much easier to level, and you can "play"
>with it easier to get it just right. BTW, I ended up using oak logs in a
>stockade fashion buried in about a four inch wide, four inch deep trench.
>The logs were very uneven on top, but I can always take a chain saw to the
>tops if I'm feeling anal about it some day...:-)
>All the Best,
>Fred
>
>
>Jeff Taylor wrote:
>
>> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>>
>> I just went out and bought five-and-a-half dozen ...
>
>
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