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  • From: "mcoldiron" <mcoldiron AT crcom.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] bed width
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:23:02 -0600

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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