Fw: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

[Dick Gross]

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From: "Dick Gross" <rkgross3 at cox.net>
To: <tpowers8 at cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page


> 1. Get a bag of concrete cement and mix it with the rock. Undercut the 
> slab a couple inches and use a mallet to pack a barely damp thick slurry 
> into the void.
>
> 2.  Purchase concrete slabs 1 1/2" by 16" by 6" from any home supply store 
> and install them end to end along the slab. Pack the soil in behind them 
> to keep them in place. You could use construction glue to permanently 
> attach the slabs to the existing slab but don't use the glue unless you 
> are quite sure you won't want to remove them at some later date.
>
> 3.  But a couple of 4' by 8' galvanized half inch hardware or 
> plaster/stucco screen from Home Depot or Lowes or any hardware, cut it 
> into strips 7" wide and install them along the slab. Just dig straight 
> down along the edge, apply the strips flush against the soil wall and pack 
> dirt against it. Put the strips deep enough that an unsuspecting bare foot 
> doesn't impact a portruding piece of wire and draw blood.
>
> There may be better ideas others may share, Thomas, but these are three as 
> starters.
>
> Dick Gross, Master Gardener Volunteer
> University of Arizona Maricopa County
> Cooperative Extension
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <tpowers8 at cox.net>
> To: <arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:12 AM
> Subject: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page
>
>
>> Thomas A. Powers
>> 85208
>> tpowers8 at cox.net
>>
>> I live in the Fountain of the Sun Adult Community in a modular home with 
>> a concrete slab on both sides. There are a few tunnels going under the 
>> slabs. They are about 2 in. in dia. I've filled them in with the gravel 
>> dug out; and they are immediately opened up again. We gave several 
>> rabbits running around. What can I do to get rid of these dens under the 
>> slab?
>>
>>
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