Market Farming

[Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 04:23:01 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>
>Since I rotate my beans, I can't justify building
>anything on a permanent basis, and teepees made from
>saplings don't especially seem all that effective a
>use of space.  Any brilliant ideas out there?

Here's what we did.  This is the first year we've had this
set-up, so I cannot tell how well it will work.

We hung netting from 8' tall metal fence posts.  

The row with the netting is divided into four sections:  one
section each for peas, green beans, cukes, cover crop - then
repeat.  This should be sufficient rotation.

I don't know how well this would work on a larger scale - we
have it along the north side of our garden, and it's enough
space for each of those crops for our purposes.  

Pat
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