>> I paid a neighbor to cut down a cypress tree and the trunk is lying on the ground.
>> Instead of paying someone to cut up the tree trunk into manageable pieces
>> I will build a raised bed around it - right there where it lies. Ta-da!
>> I believe cypress trees are pretty rot resistant.
>> I was thinking of a long horizontal planter while you waited for it to decompose.
>> I will completely ignore the tree trunk for the rest of my natural life.
Awww! I was thinking that it could be one wall of a long, narrow raised bed, eliminating the effort of hauling half of the timbers.
Or if a few hundred ATP members all showed up on the same afternoon, we could saw that trunk in half and drag the other half to run parallel to the first half, 3-4 feet away. Now it would form BOTH long edges of the bed.
But I bet you would run out of cookies!
When I make RBs, most of the work and expense is in making the soil from almost-pure clay.
