New Holland has a handy table to help you estimate the number of landscape blocks you'll need for a given length of wall, plus a link to a page on calculating radius curves.
If you'd like to build a drystone wall for your raised bed, here's how to do it with stacked stone.
Interested in sand beds? Mike Slater has made several for alpine plants. To find out how he does it and see some of his beds and the plants he grows in them, check out his DRY SAND BEDS page.
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May 24, 1999 11:39 PM
Clay...I agree, 50's stuff does NOT qualify for antique! Lordy! That was just yesterday!
But, seems like if it is more than a year old anymore, it's ready for "revival".
We are NOT aging...we ...
-- posted by Marge_Talt
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May 24, 1999 6:36 AM
Wesley,
If your criteria for being an antique is if your daddy drove it, leaves me with the criteria as an "antique" because I drove it.
Of course my grandkids can say that "Grandpa" drove them. ...
-- posted by Daffyclay
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May 24, 1999 4:54 AM
You should come up to Rockingham County for one of our steam and gas tractor meets during the summer. We do get a lot of the the old Steam Horses, but also a lot of those vintage childhood era tracto ...
-- posted by Treeman
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May 24, 1999 3:52 AM
Marge,
I have a new definition of old. I was raised on a farm and was very familiar with farm tractors. Yesterday, while visiting a "tourist trap" on the outer bank of North Carolina, called the ...
-- posted by Daffyclay
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May 23, 1999 10:35 PM
Clay...yes, esp. the one on Arlington Blvd. The one out here is OK, but not quite as good as the original one.
Charlie, you've got one of the vanishing breed and you're right to support it! If Mr ...
-- posted by Marge_Talt
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