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RE: Square Yard Gardening - Veggie - 13-01-2024
Slight tweak to my plans - the beds will be 2'6" square with 4 beds in a 10' long row. There'll be 4 rows of beds with a 1' wide path between each row. That means there'll be 16 x 2'6" square beds in the 10' x 13' bed. The rows will run west to east and the big bed slopes from north to south. That's the theory and it looks good on the back of an envelope.
I've even had a practice run in my kitchen where the tiles on the floor are approx 15" square so 4 squares are the size of a bed and one row of tiles is a path - ish.
RE: Square Yard Gardening - JJB - 14-01-2024
Sounds awfully technical, but having 'marked' the beds they will then be permanent for that season. Having now decided your bed size do you have to accommodate flopping over the edges/growing space. Some plants might take up a whole bed with one plant.
RE: Square Yard Gardening - Veggie - 14-01-2024
Its not technical at all! Just 4, 10' long beds, each 2'6" wide.
Floppy things like courgettes and squash will be planted elsewhere - probably the old pond again.
Hopefully, I'll grow roots, shoots and leaves in these minibeds. Time will tell.
RE: Square Yard Gardening - Veggie - 14-01-2024
Feel free to mock me! I confused the orientation of the big bed, its 13' West - East and 10' North to South, not the other way round so I've ripped up my envelope and started another one. We now have 3x 13' beds running west to east, each comprising 5 beds approx 2'6" square.
The paths between the rows will be 15" wide.
If only I'd looked at this first https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.php?tid=1274
RE: Square Yard Gardening - Vinny - 15-01-2024
(14-01-2024, 06:55 PM)Veggie Wrote: Feel free to mock me! I confused the orientation of the big bed, its 13' West - East and 10' North to South, not the other way round so I've ripped up my envelope and started another one. We now have 3x 13' beds running west to east, each comprising 5 beds approx 2'6" square.Sounds similar to my diagonal beds? Each are two foot wide with fourteen inch paths. Lengths vary.
The paths between the rows will be 15" wide.
If only I'd looked at this first https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.php?tid=1274
RE: Square Yard Gardening - Veggie - 17-01-2024
The Big bed is going to be extended to the south and should give me 5 rows of beds, not 3.
My other idea is to mark out the 2'6" squares with a line of companion plants - like tagetes or spring onions. Plants that don't take up much space but do something useful - and it will stop me tripping over bits of stick.
RE: Square Yard Gardening - JJB - 18-01-2024
(14-01-2024, 06:55 PM)Veggie Wrote: Feel free to mock me!
Mock you? Heaven forfend!
As they say, what goes around, comes around. It must be a good plan because you thought of it twice. Plant edges of something useful sounds pleasing.
RE: Square Yard Gardening - Scarlet - 18-01-2024
I grow in beds that are 4ft/1.2metres wide. I plant in long rows. Usually 5 rows - most of my plants are 9inch/22cm apart or 4rows with plants spaced 1ft/30cm apart.
Dahlias are give a little bit more room - 2 rows, Plants spaced 18inch/45cm apart
My paths are 2ft/60cm wide
RE: Square Yard Gardening - Veggie - 27-09-2024
I thought I should update you on how well this plan worked! If you remember it was going to be 3 rows of beds, each 13' long by 2'6" wide. with a path between the rows. Each bed would be divided into 2'6" squares - so 5 beds in each row.
It started well with 2 x broad bean squares in the first row. Then, because I hadn't cleared the adjacent beds properly I planted onions going in the wrong direction which threw out the rest of the beds! For some reason known only to the powers that be, my next rows ended up paralleling the onions, not the broad beans and the nominal paths were lost. Then some calendula self seeded in the wrong place and I couldn't bring myself to dig them up.........and so it went on. The best laid plans went AWOL.
I've been clearing this bed today (its VP5) and I want to strip it out completely and start again and try to do it properly next year. Don't hold your breath.
RE: Square Yard Gardening - JJB - 28-09-2024
I think you ought to draw us a picture/plan and update it when you've planted something. It might focus your mind to keep to the plan..... but maybe not.