Cob:living roof-landscape tubes

[Charmaine]

Chuck--the gravel sausage sounds like those retaining /tubes used on 
sides of steep hills, landscapers use them.  they are some fiber mesh 
fabric, like jute, silled with something, you might be able to make your 
own /find out how to duplicate them if they are expensive.

In the clean-up industry they are called "pigs" long tubes that suck up 
oil spills, etc in factories..
 
a couple years ago I bought  a roll of coir  2" sq.  woven mesh (made 
from coconut fiber) , but it would let dirt/rocks pass thru, they make a 
smaller weave  that  could work, and remove  the eventual "rust" factor 
from chicken wire.. www.rolanka.com  sells the coir, other places do too.

I saw a ton of the landscape tubes used on hills aside  Hwy  5 while I 
was driving home from the CASBA bale meeting...



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