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gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
May 28, 2008
11:15 AM Post #5015033
| I want a raised bed for roses and several raised beds for cutting flowers. My son and a friend are going to build them this summer. Of course it is too hot to plant anything now so that gives me a year to build on the lasagna bed. We have lots of cattle so manure is already decomposing and I drink enough coffee to support Starbucks(LOL).
This is verrrry exciting and thank you so much on how to go about this project.
gail |
darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
May 28, 2008
12:19 PM Post #5015383
| Cool, gail! Post pics when they get planted, ok? |
gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
May 28, 2008
01:10 PM Post #5015605
| don't worry as I take pics of things people don't even want to see (LOL) and I can't wait to do this...thanks |
indigobunting
Nashville, TN
June 02, 2008
08:15 AM Post #5039935
| I'm so excited! I just killed myself digging out clay soil for a tiny raised bed.
I guess it's time to start collecting paper for next years new garden.
Thank you!! |
darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
June 02, 2008
11:03 AM Post #5040564
| indigobunting, you will be amazed! Try to start layering by Fall if you can. |
gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
June 02, 2008
10:56 PM Post #5044090
| My brother has a piece of equipment that digs up dirt and hauls it off...since I am building raised beds, do I need to get him to take a foot of soil off the top before I build the raised beds? Thanks |
darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
June 03, 2008
12:14 AM Post #5044531
| NO! Some good, healthy stuff lives in that top 12"... millions and millions of Efficient Microbes.
edited for typo.
This message was edited Jun 3, 2008 12:15 AM |
gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
June 03, 2008
09:55 AM Post #5045644
| glad you told me that and thanks for telling me! |
darius
So.Appalachian Mtns, VA
(Zone 5b)
June 03, 2008
09:57 AM Post #5045659
| Gail, I should have added that if by any chance that soil was contaminated (toxic waste) probably removing a foot wouldn't be enough anyway. |
gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
June 03, 2008
07:11 PM Post #5048337
| No, this is just good ole' blackland farming land with a lot of clay. No one has even lived out here for at least 25 years in this house. I just mow weeds...don't even have grass and don't want any St. Augustine to take care of. I just want lots of raised beds for cutting flowers and a big giant rose bed.
When I lived in New Braunfels in zone 8, the landscaper did take the top 12" inches of dirt out for a mammoth sized cutting garden. Since I wanted an instant garden, he used lot of bone meal and blood meal and mixed with really good topsoil. That was the prettiest yard I ever had. I didn't fertilize for 4 years and still had the prettiest flowers in town. (That soil was really hot the first year) |
