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Posted by Omelet on November 3, 2008, 8:25 pm
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> I have one raised bed, a square just about a foot high and 40 inches on
> a side. This is for a Mineola tangelo because citrus needs soils that
> draing very well while my soil is adobe clay. The bed is framed with a
> single layer of unmortared cinder blocks. I filled the holes in the
> blocks with potting mix and planted wax-leaf begonias in them.
I've also built two raised beds with unmortared cinderblock 3 bricks
high, and that hardly takes skilled labor. ;-) I like them but do have
to add soil to them every year.
Not that that's a bad thing.
I like them.
One is for asparagus and the other is for dad's medicinal flowers such
as marigold (Calendula L.) and purple cone flower.
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Peace! Om
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot
survive." -- Dalai Lama
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Posted by Sheldon on November 4, 2008, 9:38 am
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> I've also built two raised beds with unmortared cinderblock 3 bricks
> high, and that hardly takes skilled labor. ;-) =EF=BF=BDI like them
You live where the ground doesn't freeze.
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Posted by Omelet on November 4, 2008, 4:18 pm
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> Omelet wrote:
> >
> > I've also built two raised beds with unmortared cinderblock 3 bricks
> > high, and that hardly takes skilled labor. ;-) ?I like them
>
>
> You live where the ground doesn't freeze.
Wanna bet?
Granted, not as bad as where you are, but it happens. I'll sometimes
tent stuff with old sheets and run a clip lamp out there when I get
freeze warnings.
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Peace! Om
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot
survive." -- Dalai Lama
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Posted by Sheldon on November 4, 2008, 5:17 pm
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> > Omelet wrote:
>
> > > I've also built two raised beds with unmortared cinderblock 3 bricks
> > > high, and that hardly takes skilled labor. ;-) ?I like them
>
> > You live where the ground doesn't freeze.
>
> Wanna bet?
>
> Granted, not as bad as where you are, but it happens. =EF=BF=BDI'll somet=
imes
> tent stuff with old sheets and run a clip lamp out there when I get
> freeze warnings.
Where you live you'll get an occasional light frost that will affect
plants (really just dew freezing) but you don't get a hard freeze
where the ground freezes solid.
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Posted by Dioclese on November 5, 2008, 7:15 am
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> > Omelet wrote:
>
> > > I've also built two raised beds with unmortared cinderblock 3 bricks
> > > high, and that hardly takes skilled labor. ;-) ?I like them
>
> > You live where the ground doesn't freeze.
>
> Wanna bet?
>
> Granted, not as bad as where you are, but it happens. ?I'll sometimes
> tent stuff with old sheets and run a clip lamp out there when I get
> freeze warnings.
Where you live you'll get an occasional light frost that will affect
plants (really just dew freezing) but you don't get a hard freeze
where the ground freezes solid.
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Another case of geographical location specific advice. Quite common here.
All must read with a grain or more of salt to judge if such advice is
appropriate for themselves.
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Dave
If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not
a cantaloupe.
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