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Re: Raised Beds in England

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

In article <F4868CA398C@purchasing.utah.edu>, Teresa Stanton
<tstanton@purchasing.utah.edu> writes
>The reason I use Cedar is because it holds up well with bugs and 
>weather.  I use low grade Cedar, not the good stuff. 
>
>I am not familiar with your reference for Organic Gardening.

Geoff Hamilton was a popular 'TV' gardener/writer in the UK, who died
earlier this year. He did much to popularize organic gardening.

>  Crop 
>rotation is quite easy in square foot gardens because one is dealing 
>with a square foot of space instead of a row. 

It's debatable how useful this is as things don't really rotate very far
and some of the soil pests could easily move across I'd have thought.
More to the point I suspect that the general mixed-up-ness of a sqft
plot helps. And in general, in small domestic plots, sqft or not.

 I don't think that rotation is so important as in large scale
agriculture. where a large area of land would have the same crop.

> You could read Mel 
>Bartholemew's book

Who says much the same as above IIRC. 
> and get most of the information you need. 
>

-- 
Chris French, Leeds


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