[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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