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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