a vegetable garden plan from gardens for all book series

war garden 572 · February 2023

if anything in diagram in unclear i will clarify it.

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RubyRoss · February 2023

If only my veg patch looked that neat. Thanks for sharing. It will help me start with a plan this year

war garden 572 · February 2023

if you fail to plan
you are planning to fail.

Skandi · February 2023

I had his book on wide row gardening many years ago. It was one of the books that helped me when I first had an allotment many years ago.

I remember one picture of him and his wife? sitting on little stools in a huge square patch of peas, I thought it sounded a great idea at the time. Having since picked literally tons of peas I can say I like them in rows with space to get between!

Obelixx · February 2023

I can't see any space between rows or beds to allow for weeding, thinng, succession sowing and planting, harvesting etc and certainly not with a wheelbarrow so it all lloks a bit too crowded and hard to maintain.

We grow all our soft fruit and veg in raised beds with paths between - easy for access and easy for netting against our chooks and marauding insects. Easy to manage rotation too.

We grow our herbs up near the kitchen with mints in semi shade in pots to stop them spreading and rosemary, tarragon, thymes, sage, oregano and chives in full sun and poorer, well-drianed soil.

Fairygirl · February 2023

Obelixx said:

I can't see any space between rows or beds to allow for weeding, thinng, succession sowing and planting, harvesting etc and certainly not with a wheelbarrow so it all lloks a bit too crowded and hard to maintain.

More like impossible @Obelixx

Even if you were able to grow all those veg successfully in your location, and that's a fairly big 'if', how on earth you'd accommodate them with no space to move about, let alone tend/support and pick them without trampling over half the crops, is anyone's guess. Crowding everything like that only leads to other problems too.

Dovefromabove · February 2023

It also looks like a haven for slugs to me. All that snug shade at the base of the plants … 🤔

war garden 572 · February 2023

Obelixx guess you and Fairygirl missed part about anything in the diagram
being unclear i will clarify it. since the note on top left part of diagram
says " make walkway wide enough for working and cultivation
[this plan allows for 16 inch walkways].

Fairygirl · February 2023

I'd need a super sooper magnifying glass to read any of it.
It's not of any real interest to me anyway. I only grow a small amount of veg/fruit. Most of it gets eaten by slugs, and tomatoes can't be reliably grown outside here

16 inches isn't wide enough as a serviceable path either.

BenCotto · February 2023

Then why doesn’t the plan show it? Anyway, 16” is extremely narrow. You could walk down it but you could not bend down to weed or harvest and it definitely could not accommodate a wheelbarrow.

The plan shows a width of 25’ and a length of 30’ but the diagram does not have those proportions.

Dovefromabove · February 2023

It’s an attractive illustration … but it’s not a useable plan.

a vegetable garden plan from gardens for all book series

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