Thank you to all who helped me get to the bottom of this. (Before posting I had checked the PBS site, e-mailed and googled the garden...all to no avail, the video is not online yet, and there is no description of the materials used online). I am "gardening" my treelawn this year and this may be the perfect temporary raised bed to keep the roots out of the road salt tainted soil... This is a fantastic group of gardeners
--- On Wed, 1/7/09, William Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: From: William Maynard <[email protected]> Subject: [Community_garden] Waddles for beds To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 12:21 PM waddles are used in construction as a way to contain sediment from newly graded ground at construction sites. they are "snakes" of straw bound together with a plastic mesh or burlap. they collect the sediment when it rains and then are discarded. over time they do go flat as they decompose as they are only built to last about 6 months during the rainy season.. burlap could be added to help make then last a bit longer. for short term projects like the one in SF.. works fine... you could always add more wattles to the old ones most likely the waddles were a condition placed on the temporary garden by the city to keep soil out of the storm drainage system. see info on wattles here http://www.specialtysupply.com/wattles.asp bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090107/e57adc7c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090107/a00fcacd/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
