Re: Longer beds

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• Subject: Re: Longer beds
• From: J* H* <j*@AIRMAIL.NET>
• Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 14:31:02 -0000

It all depends on your available space. I have 4 X 4, 2 X 2, and 2 X 8
raised beds. I use the longer beds for carrots, onions, and leaf lettuce.
Mostly crops that don't require the same size space like squash.

John Huff
ICQ Participant
jhu554@airmail.net
Web Page http://web2.airmail.net/jhu554


-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Patterson <patters@EROLS.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list SQFT <SQFT@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>
Date: Saturday, October 25, 1997 3:01 PM
Subject: Longer beds


>At 11:11 PM -0400 10/24/97, John Webster wrote:
>>Cash From Square Foot Gardening....
>>The book was 250 pages with basics of SqFt gardening and how to use longer
>>beds and setting up growing more vegetables with selling them to local
green
>>markets or restaurants, How to plan, grow, and market you crop.
>
>For the home garden, are there many disadvantages in using longer raised
beds?
>I have just purchased a bunch of 16 foot cedar 2 X 6's to border the raised
>beds.  I am trying to decide whether to lay out a couple of 4 by 16 foot
>beds or a group of 4 by 4 squares.
>I like being able to easily work around all four sides of the squares.
>However, with limited sunny area in my new yard, I'm anxious to squeeze out
>maximum space.
>Do the traditional 4 by 4 squares offer greater utility in building covers
>and frames?
>Thanks.  --Ted Patterson, outside Phila.
>
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