More Lessons from Experience

More Lessons from Experience

When the garden was put into raised beds, it was done with salvage lumber. The beds are all different sizes. Even so they are in orderly vertical rows of the same width, either 3’ or 4’. The real problem is that the horizontal pathways are not lined up. This was not a problem when there was no fence.

When the temporary fence was put up in the season before last, there was still no problem, because there were two entrances. The Bambi fence ended that advantage. It is now very difficult to move the wheelbarrow or the tiller to the individual boxes.

The solution is to standardize the size of the boxes so that they have straight horizontal pathways as well as vertical pathways. Destruction of the old beds was started Sunday. Many of the beds are still planted so only a few can be replaced now. All of the future boxes have been laid out and will be built when their space becomes available. The original plan called for building one box at a time and filling it with the rich dirt from the other boxes that were being wrecked.

This plan was abandoned in favor of tilling the ground from all of the demolished boxes. Building new boxes if and when the planned space is available. The boxes will be filled halfway with mushroom compost and topped off with dirt from the pathways. Another plan, to deter weeds, is to have 30” pathways and use 36” commercial grade weed block in the pathway. The extra 3” on each side will be stapled to the boxes.





David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/