I used roofing tin for some of mine. I have pressure treated wood as the frame on the outside but it doesn’t touch dirt.
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Here’s ours. We did 3 for a test run. If it works out we will add 6 more. There’s a horse farm next door so we use the composted hay from their stables as the base and then just top soil from Lowe’s with some soil (sandy) from our yard. We have potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, blue berries, strawberries, cucumbers, and raspberries. I really want solar at our house too…already on well water. Want to install a manual pump if power ever goes out.
Nice raised beds are the way to go
Eating a ton of spinach and collards right now. These survived the winter after a Nov 1 planting. Antsy to get started on summer stuff. Blackberry bushes are putting on new growth, and we are getting enough asparagus already for dinner 1x/week. Excited for a good year.
was the horse poo pretty old? I tried using it one time. It was from a guys place I mowed his pastures. He had the poop and shaving piled up. Could be wrong but it seemed like I had more weeds of different type after using it.
This is the case w/ both horse and cow manure; unless the hay was treated w/ a weed herbicide. The weed seeds survive the digestion and grow like a.... well..... weed. LOL
No we just used it for filler and then did the other half with top soil. The pile was pretty broken down and when the owner dug into it with it tractor it let off a ton of steam. Assuming the steam was a lot of decomposition. I was worried too about the hay particles just growing through and so far it’s he about 40 days and nothing.
The bad thing using manure unless from a trusted source the herbicide Grazon the cow and horses eat also can kill your vegetables if the hey or pasture they were in was treated with it. It passes right through the animals and into the soil. It will keep veggies from growing for a couple of seasons. I had a friend get a bunch of manure from a farmer and he killed about a half acre garden. Nothing would grow except grass.
Check out this article. https://thesurvivalgardener.com/dea...sistent, long,or possibly years of composting.
Try barbed wire, I hear Bob isn't much of a deterrent.IDK. I thought about an electric fence but have witnessed deer at the house clear the 6ft with 2 strands of 'bobwire' that surrounds Vulcans property. I think there's really only the one way....
