[Greenbuilding] Garden edging: was Wood Info

[Lance Collins]

You can go higher than that.

I've terraced a slope with dry stacked bricks 6 high.   Only once 
have I had to take down a small section, excavate a little and 
re-stack, took about 15 minutes.

Also I have several compost bins made with old bricks stacked six 
high.   When I want to empty the bin it's trivial to unstack a 
section and then rebuild it.

Only catch for newbies is that secondhand bricks are getting to be 
expensive.  I've collected mine over many years from old paths and 
taking down old chimneys.

Lance
(in Aus)


>I've done similar in my garden but even more low tech. I only needed the bed
>to be raised about 6"-8" so I found some old 4" thick conc blocks and just
>dug them into the ground an inch or two, then overfilled the planting area
>with soil allowing it to be mounded rows that come up above the top of the
>blocks. No rebar, no mortar, no nothing. Had some just in case the blocks
>started to bow, but they never did. I've begun to cover the blocks with a
>creeping sedum and some moss since the block is kind of ugly.
>
>Lisa
>
>On 10/12/06, Lawrence Lile <LLile at projsolco.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've seen raisede beds built out of masonry.  They don't have to be
> > mortared.  A friend used some bricks with holes in them, and ran a piece of
> > rebar through the holes , bailing wire to  tie it all together, the whole
> > thing just sits on the ground, pretty low tech.  I would NOT use treated
> > wood for raised beds.  Locally we use a lot of honey locust for 
> rot resitant
> > wood posts,  although nobody saws it into lumber (that would be sorta like
> > barbecueing carp)
> >


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