Construction Slides from the Vertical Gardening Seminar OSU/Master Gardener Mini-College 2012.
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Transcript of Construction Slides from the Vertical Gardening Seminar OSU/Master Gardener Mini-College 2012.
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- Construction Slides from the Vertical Gardening Seminar OSU/Master Gardener Mini-College 2012
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- Raised Bed Construction Sizing 4 max width Materials spit face block 4 best (no PT) Foundation - choices Drain vents fabric + minus Hardware cloth galvanized tight fit Trellis PVC U bolts Enables vertical trellising Enables Hooping you beds to extend season Garden structure: Raised Beds & Vertical Gardening
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- Use EMT ( Electrical Metal Tubing) about $2.00 per 10 length Lowes / Home Depot etc Bend corners of trellis with tubing bender or use a 90 degree Lfitting Join sides together with EMT coupler (screws together) Use pre-tied STRONG nylon netting with a minimum of 6 openings (I prefer 7)- I use Park Seed trellis netting recommend you get the 5 x 60 roll ($25) as the 5 x 15 costs $15 Use black (UV protected) tie wraps to secure netting to frame Maximum trellis width is about 55 60 My trellises still look new after 5 years Trellis Construction
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- Install trellises in PVC holders inside raised beds You can install trellises anywhere by using rebar 3 long, driven 18 into the ground then slide the trellis over the rebar. You can pull the rebar out and put your trellis in a new location at will. Trellis Installation
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- Hooping your Raised Beds
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- In a Raised Bed you have complete control of the soil that will grow your plants. Its also a reasonably small volume of soil compared to Horizontal Gardens, so costs are more reasonable to create a superb growing medium. I recommend you fill your beds with: 50-50 or 60-40 compost / sandy loam mix (I use Highway Fuel) Do a soil analysis and amend as prescribed to make it perfect I do soil analysis every other year sometimes yearly using small samples from all the beds for an average. Soil
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- Please contact me at [email protected] or 503-315-8313 If you have any questions or comments