Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Dave,

I am not sure if this would interest you because of the cost (amen - JK), but we built beautiful school gardens using this bracket kit. You buy the bracket kits from Lee Valley and then the concrete stepping stones from your local store. I am in Florida, so I am not sure if you would have problems with the concrete cracking in the cold winter where you live. Perhaps Lee Valley could answer that. We only get into the 20's here. We do not use the top kit. You could do better making your own trellis according to the Mittleider M.

http://www.leevalley.com/US/garden/page.aspx?p=47455&cat=2

Tiffanie

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, Jim Kennard & <dwb2808@...> wrote:
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> I have a friend that needs to build a garden box to place on her patio deck. What type of wood is recommended for this. She wants a few beds that measure 24" X 72" X 12" deep. These beds will be raised off the floor about 2.5 feet. I have been looking at cedar and treated deck boards.
> Cedar is expensive and and I worry about the chemicals in treated lumber
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> Help
> Dave in Spokane, MO.
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> Dave & Group:
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> I recommend she use treated lumber, at least 8" tall. 10" and 12" are fine, but not really necessary and use more soil, water, fertilizer, etc. Today's treated lumber no longer has arsenic in it.
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> What is she going to grow? Unless her plants are all small, like lettuce, spinach, onions, radishes, etc. she can only get two rows in a 24"-wide bed or box. And she can also get two rows of all the plants she will be growing in 18"-wide beds or boxes, so I suggest she consider 18"-wide boxes.
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> With proper feeding, she can grow any plant in the garden in sawdust and sand 18" wide by 8" deep.
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> Make sure that the bottoms are amply ventilated with holes, or with 1/4" gaps every 4" width, otherwise she will have drainage problems.
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> Jim Kennard
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> P.S. Where is Spokane, MO? We are in Northwestern MO ourselves - Gallatin.
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