ardesia said: Dave, are you going to be using the Crape Myrtles branches in your beds? I would be afraid they will sprout.
sallyg said: I am about to ditch all the old fabric for good. Granted, it is years old.
_TheZenMaster said: @Dave, what does mulch on top of the black fabric achieve?
dave said:
critterologist said: ... I just got some good quality (I hope) stuff from Greenhouse Megastore to use under my new galvanized raised bed rings.
dyzzypyxxy said: I'll bet all your kids are getting pretty big now, Dave? But I know you have some girls in the family . . . are they all gardeners like you and Trish?
dyzzypyxxy said: At the school garden we put in 4 x 8 beds originally and we found they were hard to reach into the middle of the bed even for adults
critterologist said: yuk on those galvanized rings, Dave! I ordered the same ones a friend put in a couple years ago, so hopefully they'll last a few years at least.
ardesia said: Dave, years ago we cut down some crapes in early fall and left the long straight branches laying on the ground in the woods. The following spring I used the branches for tomato stakes and by July I noticed there were some unusual leaves among the tomatoes and sure enough, those branches had rooted and leafed out. We shared many crapes that year. Hopefully yours will have truly died by now, crapes are hard to get rid of.