{"id":4509,"date":"2013-05-03T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T13:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2013-05-24T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:32:32","slug":"raised-bed-topups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/raised-bed-topups\/","title":{"rendered":"Raised bed topups"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130428a_10\"<\/a>The raised veg beds were themselves raised another garden tie level in the last few weeks. This is a 3″x5″ nominal piece of wood, raising the wall height by 3″.
\nHow much dirt is needed to bring up the levels 3″?<\/p>\n

Let’s take Veg3(2007) at 60ft^2 as the first example.
\n60ft^2\/27ft^3 = 2.2 yards of dirt 1′ deep \/ 4 to get 3″ = 0.6 yards<\/p>\n

Veg2(2005) is 80 ft^2 and will need 0.75 yards (but some is already planted)
\nVeg1(2003) is 170 ft^2 and will need 1.5 yards (and some is already planted)
\nVeg6(2011) is 60 ft^2 and will need 0.6 yards
\nVeg7(2011) is 24 ft^2 and will need 0.3 yards
\nVeg8(2011) is 24 ft^2 and will need 0.3 yards
\nVeg4ABC(2006) is 200+150+180=530ft^2 and will need 6″ not 3″ gives 9 yards!
\nVeg4SC(2010) is 120 ft^2 and will need 1 yard
\nVeg5N(2010) is approx 250 ft^2 and will need 6″ not 3″ gives 4 yards!
\nThis totals about 18 yards already and we haven’t touched on the strawberrries, grape vines, and expanded butterfly garden.<\/p>\n

It looks like we will not get 6″ into Veg 4ABC and 5N.
\nGiving everyone 3″ totals about 12 yards.<\/p>\n

Updated 2013 May 06
\nVeg1 was topped up with 10 wheelbarrel loads of earth (~2.2 yards)
\nVeg2 was topped up with 5 wheelbarrel loads (~1.1 yards)
\nVeg3 was topped up with 5 wheelbarrel loads (~1.1 yards)
\nVeg6 was topped up with 5 wheelbarrel loads (~1.1 yards)
\nVeg7 was topped up with 2 wheelbarrel loads (~0.4 yards)
\nVeg8 was topped up with 2 wheelbarrel loads (~0.4 yards)
\nor about 6.3 yards moved so far<\/p>\n

Updated: 2013 May 08
\nMost wheelbarrels seem to be about 6 ft^3 of volume. It is hard to tell as the one we have is no longer sold by Canadian Tire… and it is a winner. Two inflated large tires in the front, two solid wheels in the back, with a dump lever. Makes moving a lot of dirt not nearly so difficult.
\nVeg4C had 11 loads of earth added to it yesterday.. that’s about 66 ft^3\/27= 2.5 yards
\ntotal to date about 8.8 yards or just over half of the 16 yard pile.<\/p>\n

Updated: 2013 may 24
\nWill have to revise downward the estimated volume of the wheelbarrel. According to the calculations at 6ft^3, we should be out of dirt already, but we are not!
\nSo let us redo all of these at 5 ft^3 per wheelbarrel load.<\/p>\n

Veg4C had 11 loads of earth added to it yesterday.. that’s about 55 ft^3\/27= 2.0 yards <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The raised veg beds were themselves raised another garden tie level in the last few weeks. This is a 3″x5″ nominal piece of wood, raising the wall height by 3″. How much dirt is needed to bring up the levels 3″? Let’s take Veg3(2007) at 60ft^2 as the first example. 60ft^2\/27ft^3 = 2.2 yards of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}