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Gardening

TheMadMonk

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3. Just plead ignorance. At that age it's NOT going to be a major health hazard.

Reply to Denninmi (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 12:29 PM

May 2012

Not unless you do something dumb like lick the walls.

Smart trick would be to drop the top few courses of blocks into the bottom and then colapse the soil on top to give yourself sloped sides. Then it's just a matter of a few bags of sand and a vinyl liner.

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