Planting crops in wide beds

Question

Why should you plant crops in wide beds?

Lee · Answer

This allows you to double your vegetable harvest in a small space.it gives room to grow several varieties of plants.plants grow closely together causing a living mulch which deters weeds from popping up.

Fink · Answer

It is considered suitable and attractive methods to  adopt to growing wide range of fruits and vegetables for great increase yields at harvest time.

Simon · Answer

Gives the plants space to grow and produce better crop

Stewart · Answer

You don't have to. You can grow crops in a window box.

Jamie · Answer

The higher level of the soil encourages beds to warm up faster in the spring, allowing the season to start earlier. Fertilisers, organic matter and manures are concentrated on areas where plants grow, rather than being wasted on pathways.

Eric · Answer

The traditional method of planting in narrow rows, lining up single plants in long rows separated by 1 to 2 feet of bare soil is to provide access for weeding and other maintenance tasks.

But this method wastes a lot of garden space in empty paths between rows. 
An increasingly popular method of planting is wide-row gardening.

This method uses much wider rows—up to 4 feet in some situations—with fewer empty paths between rows.
Rather than plants lined up single-file, wide-row gardening uses a denser planting style for maximum productivity.

Iveta · Answer

Basically don’t be lazy and get your hands dirty !! We have a reasonable plot for verges in garden and pack them in most if not all verges are shallow rooted try to keep compatible crops together like tomatoes and infill with basil they go great together both in the garden and in the kitchen keep your courgettes and squash well apart or will cross pollinate and you end up with some funky veg still edible though beetroot basically will grow anywhere so fill in gaps with that and really important is to have some pollination flowers here and there for the bees we have nausturtiums cos they flower all summer and keep the caterpillars off the greens but main thing is to prepare in winter your beds with a descent organic mulch and your good to go and don’t forget to rotate your crops every year

Planting crops in wide beds

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