For those who don't know, Garden Soxx, are these polyethelene tubes that one fills with soil,
compost, etc. and then you lay them out and plant with your starts and stuff. Cool idea. What's really cool - to me - about them is that they're bendy. You can make keyholes and spirals and circles and junk. Cool. Or, you know, straight lines if you like those.
Also, they're weed free and keep that garden clean. It's a boon to newbies or to people like me who live in a wet place with lots and lots and lots of weeds. Makes ya feel good about the whole thing while you're laying down whatever sheet mulch you can (sometimes you can't do the whole thing at once, see?).
And the selling point of the real thing is that you can create a garden in them even on pavement, which can be handy in an urban environment or in a school garden application where you've not got much soily place to dig in.
Anyway, what I'm not such a big fan of the material it's made from, so I got thinking... what about using untreated burlap tubes? You can get them in a lot of diameters. You can even use them as earthbags. So what if you used them as natural 'garden soxx'? After a while, they just break down and I'm not freaking out about yucky plasticky fibres all in my soil and stuff.
I wonder if they'd only last one go, or if you could get two seasons out of them?
The original is like $2/ft.
untreated burlap tube of the same diameter is $2/yd
The original comes with a 'filler' which is pretty much like a piece of sono tube.
IDK. Anyone wanna experiment with this one with me? Next spring for me, of
course.
Or am I just a nut?
Thanks heaps,
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