Re: Raised Bed
- To: "Pumpkin Newsgroup" <p*@athenet.net>
- Subject: Re: Raised Bed
- From: "* V* <b*@island.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:45:54 -0800
>
> Subject: Re: Raised Bed
> Date: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 10:00 AM
> so I'd like to try the raised bed approach. Does anyone have any wisdom
to
> > pass along? How big/tall a bed? Techniques? And what kind of
results can I
> > hope for? For me a couple hundred lbs would be raging success.
> >
I'm using a 150 sq. ft. raised bed on a city lot. It's surrounded by
concrete walls about 1 ft. high, and I had to move some azaleas to convert
it into a pumpkin patch. The vine took over the adjoining lawn, and I
added a lot of temporary soil on the lawn for mounding and secondary root
formation.
My results were good - a 300 pounder.
At our local weighoff one grower claimed his 380 lb. pumpkin was grown on
a mere 50 sq. ft. raised bed surrounded by sawdust!
We urban growers may never break any world records, but we can still grow
some pretty good-sized pumpkins.
Bill Verchere,
Ladysmith, BC Canada
Visit my Giant Pumpkin and Extreme Skiing Page at
http://www.island.net/~billv/
