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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


  • [Market-farming] raised beds, Connie BAUMBERGER, 12/12/2005

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