[Market-farming] width of beds

Goodwill at Homefields Farm sbreneman at yourgoodwill.org
Tue Dec 23 09:47:00 EST 2008


Mike,

Thanks for the overview of bed systems, that was very helpful. We have 
used the 36" beds for 8 seasons with 12 inch tire tracks forming our 
paths and that has worked pretty well, although walking in a cupped 12 
inch path can be challenging at times.

The switch to 54" beds is aimed at not having so many tire tracks in the 
field for less compaction and also for considerably more growing space. 
We definitely won't be able to hop over these beds, but we don't that 
much anyway now that we are growing several acres of veggies, and we'll 
probably also end up walking on them some too, but as I often find 
myself saying, there is no perfect system.

Scott


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