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Originally Posted by wooohooo
Anyone into vegetable gardening? I'm reading more into this square foot gardening and it's intriguing. What kind of soil mixes are you guys using?
How about building raised beds? I built mine out of regular framing lumbar as I figured it's cheaper to just replace it when it rots out in a few years time.
I started planting from seeds about a month ago so I'm just itching to transplant them this weekend.
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The problem with replacing the wood isn't the expense. It's the fact that there is at least a foot or so of soil on the other side of the wood that is pushing against it. As soon as you remove the rotting wood, that soil is going to spill outwards. So then you pile the soil higher, to get another frame around the outside, but it just doesn't quite fit the way you like, so you have to hammer and shove and push it around, and the screws you put into the vertical posts keep popping out - cause that's the first part that goes, not to mention replacing the wooden spikes in the corners if you set them deep in the ground like you should, and you realize it's a heck of a lot more work than paying the extra $30-$40 you need to do it right the first time.