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Advice WantedWood decay in my garden beds
Posted April 7, 2024 by Pas_Une_Parisienne in Gardening

During covid lockdown, I had built five raised garden beds in my smallish garden (there wasn't much else to do outside...). Being a complete rookie, I relied on YouTube videos and everything I could buy or have delivered online.

So, I guess I made a rookie mistake or two—I used untreated wood and skipped the geotextile fabric. Fast forward a couple of years, and now the wood's starting to rot in all of them, and they look like they gonna fall apart any minute now. But I still have plants in most of them (strawberry, herbs, garlic,...)

Any ideas on what I should do? Should I try working around the decay with a layer of treated wood, or just buy new ones? I do not have any problem paying a reasonable price for read made new ones, but I'd hate to waste materials if I can avoid it. I would also like to skip toxic material.

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Gladys_KravitzDecember 25, 2021

it is because older women's critical voice is not loud (or allowed) in modern media. An issue perpetuated by men.

Absolutely not true. Older women have been speaking out about this constantly for decades. Not even trans stuff—they've been speaking up about objectification of women and critiques of porn/rape culture.

The overwhelming response is "OK Boomer", or "shut up you jealous old hag".

Young women are rejecting this advice en masse and then turn around and have the gall to say "why didn't anyone warn me??" Well, they did warn you, but you wrote them off as old and out of touch.

Ageism is a huge problem for the left.

[Deleted]December 25, 2021

There's a difference between speaking and having access to a megaphone.