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Banded Shrubs & Evergreens (Continued) 
(About Rhododendrons) 
Here’s a good idea! 
A good customer tells us that he just didn’t feel like 
tossing a lot of high-priced peatmoss around. Yet 
he did want to grow some Azaleas and Rhododen- 
drons. 
To solve the problem, he set 8x8x16” Cement Blocks 
on top of the ground, in rectangular form, to shape 
up a bed 6’ wide and 50’ long. Coarse ashes were 
filled into the bed to a depth of two or three inches. 
The blocks were placed with the holes up, and the 
holes were filled with soil, as well as the “joints” 
between the blocks. 
Enough stakes were driven into holes in the blocks 
to support a 1x38” strip of lumber about 15” above 
the tops of the blocks. Shade lath were placed across 
these strips. Thus he had a low cost, yet substantial 
container to keep the moss from being scattered 
about; and he probably could not have devised a 
better place for growing Azaleas, Rhododendrons, 
etc. 
The bed was filled to the top with peat, and the 
plants planted in this strait moss where they certain- 
ly grew well. 
Later another bed, exactly like the first and beside 
it, was built, and a walkway left between. The walk- 
way was partially filled with soil, and topped with 
crushed rock to keep it dry. Looked like a “top” 
idea. 
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