Re: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Concrete as garden borders
Hi Linn - after Jeff mentioned that the bags would not solidify entirely and leave pockets, I envisioned perfect little spaces for ant colonies and bees. Although the bees would be welcomed everything else would not be good. Now that your experience warns me to not use bags I can see that in a few years I would have a garden full of bad soil - 1/2 cement 1/2 clay. What a mess!
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From: "Linn Bee" <smartredd@yahoo.com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:23:00
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Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Concrete as garden borders
From personal experience I can assure you there is no structural integrity in hardened bags of cement.
I purchased 2 dozen bags to use in setting the foundation of my new garden shed. Three years later. . . . . the bags were hard, the paper covering was well degraded, and the cement was set up. I suggested moving the bags to my shade garden as a stepping stone walkway. The bag-shaped cement was crumbly rather than solid and most broke when I lifted them.
Sounds logical, but sad to say, it's probably a bad idea.
Love, Linn Bee
Zone 5a - 4b
South-est, central-est Wisconsin
--- In Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com, "art_cy" <cynthia@...> wrote: I was thinking of making retaining walls from stacked cement bags left to harden in place.
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