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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1803844" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>A couple of years ago I was on a hike up in the mountains and noticed a bunch of old stock tanks around one of the springs, empty and just sitting there. I found out who had cattle in the area and bought several of them. Green, steel, 12X3 maybe wider, and about twenty inches deep. I put them on railroad ties to raise them off the ground and filled them with about five kinds of bagged commercial soils, compost, and mulch.</p><p></p><p>I've done raised beds/containers for a few years and the trick is to get the soil biome to start percolating. If you don't have live soil, bacteria and such in it, it won't grow anything decently. I dig a bunch of earthworms and add them in and they usually die pretty quickly the first couple of years, but they add healthy micro-life. When you can dig up the live worms in a container you know you have a good growing medium.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1803844, member: 42463"] A couple of years ago I was on a hike up in the mountains and noticed a bunch of old stock tanks around one of the springs, empty and just sitting there. I found out who had cattle in the area and bought several of them. Green, steel, 12X3 maybe wider, and about twenty inches deep. I put them on railroad ties to raise them off the ground and filled them with about five kinds of bagged commercial soils, compost, and mulch. I've done raised beds/containers for a few years and the trick is to get the soil biome to start percolating. If you don't have live soil, bacteria and such in it, it won't grow anything decently. I dig a bunch of earthworms and add them in and they usually die pretty quickly the first couple of years, but they add healthy micro-life. When you can dig up the live worms in a container you know you have a good growing medium. [/QUOTE]
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