[Market-farming] bed width
Goodwill at Homefields Farm
sbreneman at yourgoodwill.org
Wed Dec 17 14:22:21 EST 2008
Hi Mark,
We currently have a 36 inch straddle with our tractors on beds that are
not raised and in that 36 inch space plant 1 row of tomatoes, two rows
of beans or 3 rows of radishes, beets, etc.
I got some 9 inch spacers made up for our compact diesel tractor which
will give a 54 inch straddle under the tractor to plant 5 or 6 rows of
greens per bed, possibly triple row brassicas, 5 rows of carrots.
The 54s will be very wide--we'll have to leap across them :-)
Scott
> Just curious, are you saying your actual beds are 36" wide and you're going
> to make them 54" wide, or are you talking about row spacing of 36" on center
> and going up to 54" on center?
>
> If you're beds are actually that wide, how do you do that? Seems like you'd
> have to trough up a huge amount of dirt and your furrows would have to be
> extremely wide or extremely deep? Got any pictures?
>
> My rows are 36" on center and the beds are about 18" wide. Some folks
> around here have their rows on 40" centers.
>
> TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
> West Texas Zone 7b
>
> On 12/16/2008 7:49:53 AM, Goodwill at Homefields Farm
> (sbreneman at yourgoodwill.org) wrote:
>> A little while back, bed width was mentioned...was there a discussion of
>> the pros and cons that I missed? We are going to go from 36 inch beds
>> to 54, but can change back if necessary.
>>
>> Scott
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