[Sca-cooks]2 - medieval herb garden

[Sue Clemenger]

Advantages of raised beds...hmmm....<g>
Well, they're period, for one.
And for another, I wouldn't be having to deal with the monumental
quantity of rocks (large small and gargantuan) lurking just under our
top soil.  I live in what used to be a glacial lake bed--centuries worth
of rocks. Many of the local hills still bear the water marks where the
shorelines were all those millennia ago....
I'd probably only have the beds raised a couple of feet, tops, most
likely a foot or so (about the height of a railroad tie, but not those
in actuality because of the creosote).  It would depend a lot on the
kind of yard I had--slope, shape, walls, fences, that sort of thing. 
And whether the previous owners/tenants had had a garden, as well.
--maire


Stefan li Rous wrote:
> 
> So, what is the advantage of having the beds raised? And how high do
> you mean when you say "raised"? Do you mean a single landscaping timber
> or enough stacked up to put the bed a foot or more above the natural
> ground level?
> After we move I will be trying to figure out what I want to do with the
> yard and whether I want to try an herb garden again, and if so to do it
> in pots, barrels, beds or just what.
> Stefan
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