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Container Gardening - Part 1
Building a Raised Bed Garden
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Garden area before clearing |
This is the area we selected for the raised beds.
It was fairly level, close to a water source and had decent sun all day.
The only catch was the poor old pear tree which was about to go over in the next good wind storm had to go.
Yes, those are power lines running through the branches. We had a project on our hands.
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Using a polesaw to carefully cut small branches away from powerlines |
Step 1: Carefully cutting all the small limbs and branches away from the lines.
This required cutting the power to the garage for the better part of an afternoon.
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The aftermath of tree cutting adventure. |
Several hours later we had the tree down and a mess to clean up. After cutting away from the powerlines,
we used a winch to pull the main bulk of the tree away from the lines while cutting it off with a chainsaw. Winch ran from
the other tree in the background to the upper part of the tree we were cutting.
What you don't see here is the bulk of the limbs and debris behind the camera. Clean up was a lot like work.
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Garden area after clean up. |
Thanks to the 4wheeler and a chain, we now have a rather large brush pile out in the field.
Now all we have to do is level the stump, finish the clean up and we are ready to build the beds.
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We would like to thanks the following people and businesses for their help in this project. Without them this would not have been possible.
Berry Hill Irrigation, Inc.
3744 Highway 58
Buffalo Junction, VA 24529
Toll Free: 1-800-345-DRIP (3747)
Local or Outside the U.S.:
434-374-5555
www.berryhilldrip.com
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BLC Building Centers
Boston Lumber Company
1099 Philpott Rd. (Hwy 58)
South Boston, VA 24592
434-572-6991
www.blcbuildingcenters.com
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Dana's Garden Spot
5844 US Hwy 29
Blairs, VA 24527
434-836-9200
www.danasgardenspot.com
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Reese's Farm Fresh Produce
8121 James D. Hagood Hwy
Scottsburg, VA 24589
434-454-6808
www.reesesfarmfresh.com
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Tightsqueeze Hardware
220 Tightsqueeze Rd.
Chatham, VA 24531
434-432-2512
www.tightsqueezehardware.com
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William H. McCaleb
Program Assistant, ANR
Master Gardener Coordinator
Virginia Cooperative Extension
171 S. Main Street
P.O. Box 757
Halifax, VA 24558-0757
434-476-2147
www.ext.vt.edu
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