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Jonathon You need to get horse watering troughs for planters above ground. No bending over, they retain water and heat, hardly have to weed. I am converting most of my raised beds to these. All I have to do is weed wack or spray around them.
By the way this was last summer, no planting until next week when the frost danger should be done here.johnsbrewhouse Wow, those look great! I have been thinking of some ideas for that for several years to convert from the normal beds/row. I was going to use Hog pen or coral panels with chicken wire & straw. Have some trees I could cut to initially fill the bottoms. Might help keep the chickens & critters out too & definitely the bending & weeding, especially since we still hand fork. Just have not gotten around to it yet. Yours look absolutely great though.
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Jonathon You need to get horse watering troughs for planters above ground. No bending over, they retain water and heat, hardly have to weed. I am converting most of my raised beds to these. All I have to do is weed wack or spray around them.
By the way this was last summer, no planting until next week when the frost danger should be done here.johnsbrewhouse do you make drain holes in the bottom, or remove the bottom?
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Jonathon You need to get horse watering troughs for planters above ground. No bending over, they retain water and heat, hardly have to weed. I am converting most of my raised beds to these. All I have to do is weed wack or spray around them.
By the way this was last summer, no planting until next week when the frost danger should be done here.johnsbrewhouse Saaaweettttt! Nice plan.
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johnsbrewhouse do you make drain holes in the bottom, or remove the bottom?
GWG8541 The Rubbermaid’s have a threaded drain built in. I put landscape fabric in the bottom to cover the drain port, then added 4 inches of pea gravel, then another layer of landscape fabric, then the soil, and compost on top of that. They sat out all winter here in the NW and have never filled with water. I keep the cap on the drain slightly cracked.
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GWG8541 your plants 🪴 are looking great
. I bet you can’t wait to get them in the ground. Good luck. I got pretty much all of mine planted. Just ready for the rest of it to come up. 
cdavis Nice garden. You’re way ahead of me. Did plant parsnips and carrots but still too cold for anything else.
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GWG8541 The Rubbermaid’s have a threaded drain built in. I put landscape fabric in the bottom to cover the drain port, then added 4 inches of pea gravel, then another layer of landscape fabric, then the soil, and compost on top of that. They sat out all winter here in the NW and have never filled with water. I keep the cap on the drain slightly cracked.
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Folks, I need some gopher-proof raised bed idea help. So far johnsbrewhouse horse trough looks great, any other ideas?
Gophers invaded my yard and totally destroyed it, went from nice grass to the surface of the moon. They ate all the roots and chewed all my irrigation lines, which have to work here un AZ. I had to turn off yard sprinklers and rerun all drip lines aboveground due to daily chew-leaks. I tried traps and kill stake traps, didn’t work. Just paid a guy $700 to come for 4 days and run carbon monoxide into their mounds, over 150 new or old mounds now. I think that worked. But I can’t plant in the ground anymore, so need ideas on easy good gopher proof raised planters. Thx!
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Gopher proof raised beds? Raised bed with a lot of stone and concrete. They, as you know will tunnel everything. I’m building new raised beds now. Can someone tell me how to post a picture?
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Gopher proof raised beds? Raised bed with a lot of stone and concrete. They, as you know will tunnel everything. I’m building new raised beds now. Can someone tell me how to post a picture?
scottfletcher to post pictures :
Either click the white arrow in the blue box near the top of the screen
Or when replying click the icon all the way to the right
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Thanks for the help. Now I just have to put my comments with the phots, lol.
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scottfletcher Looking good!!
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scottfletcher Nice work. Wishing I had that sort of room.
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scottfletcher are those Cedar boxes? They look nice. Now its fill time.
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Yes, cedar. I have 6 more of these to build.
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scottfletcher that’s a great looking garden!
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scottfletcher Nice job with the cedar. I would have done wood as well, but the yard rats (moles) will tunnel under anything with an open bottom as well as a closed bottom. They don’t seem to like the plastic or the new traps.
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Planted some peas to add to my container garden
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Planted some peas to add to my container garden
Deepwoodsbutcher looking good fresh peas are just delicious.
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