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Originally Posted by Worth1
With Marsha's comments on her container being contaminated with them.
How on earth would someone keep them out of a raised bed?
All it would take is a heavy rain splashing the bad nematode soil into the bed and it is over.
Worth
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Its not really as bad as all that. The yard guys kept doing this weed whacker throw dirt on top thing all season, I kept hosing it off, probably right into the holes, and with all of that it was only 1 out of 43 Earthboxes that it happened to, and this is the first year that it happened, out of 5 since I got Earthboxes.
Before this happened, I wouldn't have believed it was even posdible to get nematodes in EBs.
Now my 7 gallon pots- different story. All got a layer of landscape fabric beneath them, but several had roots grow out of the pots and into the ground, so they also got nematodes. Next season I am putting cardboard beneath them.
All are being solarized now.