Thanks, Janie...

Ol' flat-lander hillbilly and Mr. Kabota been in the creek all day picking up dark colored rocks to build a large raised bed for rhodos, hostas & azaleas... Wore both of us out but I'm sho nuff getting to know the creek purdy well...

We have a lot of shale which concerns me about the raised bed because it's going down right on top of the shale... My gut feeling is that I should take out about 4 inches of it and put gravel in and then landscape cloth and then the mixture that will be the soil... I'd hate to kill stuff because it rots in a wet bowl??? I donno... Gardening here is going to be challenging to get it right...

B~