[Market-farming] bed width

mcoldiron mcoldiron at crcom.net
Wed Dec 17 18:23:02 EST 2008


Hey Scott!,

Sounds interesting!  Sure would like to see your rig.  Get that camera out 
so we can all take a look. :)  I love innovative setups.

Thanks for sharing,

TxBeeFarmer (Mark)
West Texas Zone 7b

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goodwill at Homefields Farm" <sbreneman at yourgoodwill.org>
To: <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] bed width


> 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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