First I have acidic soil. It tests in the 5.5 to 6 ph range, average rainfall 42". 4 rural acres, lots of hardwoods, oaks, hickories, a wild berry from the blueberry family, muscadines, etc. We already have planted blueberries and thornless blackberries which are happily growing.
At the top of the property we are putting in some raised beds. (Ground there is hard and gravely, thinking much of the top soil eroded off years back, not too much grows there although rest of the property is determined to grow all kinds of stuff, good news is that area has sun) We were given a bunch of landscape timbers and are putting in raised beds this winter to use next spring/summer.
We also have scrapes of sheetrock from when we turned half of a metal shop building into living quarters. My husband wants me to use those as weed barriers under the raised beds instead of cardboard. The raised beds are about 3-4 landscape timbers high. That may or may not be a good idea.
Searching online I read where some places it may not be allowed to bury sheetrock. That it will make the soil less acidic (I am ok with that but not around my happy blueberry plants. I saw some using broken bits in areas with lots of clay (not my problem here), to dry out a muddy spot. Someone else burned the sheet rock and spread the gypsum and ashes around to make their soil less acidic. (I sprinkle wood ashes around my fruit trees in hopes it will help them)
Has anyone had any experience with any of this? Or we could just haul it off, just making sure we aren't hauling off something useful.
