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- From: "Connie BAUMBERGER" <conniebrian AT msn.com>
- To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] raised beds
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:57:13 -0800
To make raised beds I use my Mitsubishi 2100 and matching tiller. I
set all the tines on right and left halves to pitch into the center.
I made two 1/8" steel plate right angle triangles...12" on the short side and
20+" on the long side. I removed the factory side-sheilds and bolted
the right angled corner to the top sheild bolt-hole...I kinked that corner
enough to allow the steel plates to be bolt to the tiller's rear cover about
1foot in from the outside corners. I use the tiller's gauge wheels to
control the depth. Usually two passes will give me a raised bed three feet
wide on top, smooth ready to plant, and uniformily tapered to five feet on the
bottom. Wth two passes I can make raised beds to ten inches tall...
sometimes I use homemade hot water tank roller to pack the beds....depends on
what I am planting. Just rearranging the tines without homemade side
sheilds will make less uniform beds.
Baumberger's Island Farm & Garden
Nordland, Washington
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- [Market-farming] raised beds, Connie BAUMBERGER, 12/12/2005
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