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a vegetable garden plan from gardens for all book series

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  • Obelixx you would likely not understand it since it for
    for advanced planners. my threads were not asking for
    advice they making sure I had everything that was important
    covered in book.   as for maps of garden plans lets see yours! 
    it must be perfect and easy understand given you all you said
    in this thread! so please post it for all to see. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    "making sure I had everything that was important covered in book."

    There are glaring gaps in what you consider important @war garden 572  and I don't see the point of posting someone else's design from an outdated book.  If you were to include that in your own book it would be plagiarism.

    I don't have pictures of my veg plot but it measures 29m x 25m, has an 8m x 4m polytunnel in the middle on the west end and has raised beds 1.25m wide for soft fruits and veggies with a minimum of 1m between them plus a hen house and pen and a new mini apple orchard space which will be underplanted with wildflowers sown this spring to encourage pollinators.   I also have a long dahlia bed for cut flowers and pollinators plus a bed for 2 pear trees and an apricot and another for sea buckthorn and 2 peaches and a nectarine.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    There's a great deal of helpful info on this site about veg growing.
    I've found it very helpful.
    https://www.allotment-garden.org/



    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • actually Obelixx it would only be copyright infringement 
    if included original graphic diagram in my book if converted 
    to the universal system i hinted that be in my book  it would
    not since copyright only covers the graphic not underlaying data.
    also since it for teaching purposes it would fall under fair use
     exception.

  • philippasmith2 it is not my plan and I am not promoting
    it comes from 11 book set of "the garden for all book of" series
    from dick raymond published between 1979-1984.
    I posted it because It looks nice and thought it might
     inspire people. As for the flaws they par for the course
     in most garden plan maps in books magazine and other sources.   
    just look a monty dons and toby buckland garden plans published
    in "gardeners world" magazine you will see the same type flaws and lack 
    of details in them that first diagram in this thread has. 
    lack detail those type flaws can even be seen in the diagram for ww2 dig for
    victory leaflets in links below. 
    https://archive.org/details/digforvictoryleaflets/leaflet 23/page/n1/mode/2up
    https://archive.org/details/digforvictoryleaflets/winter summer/page/n1/mode/2up
    Yes, I did acknowledge that it wasn't your plan and I also suggested that it probably was more to give people an idea of the possibilities rather than doggedly following the plan as shown. 
    I'm afraid I don't follow either Monty Don or Toby Buckland and I haven't read GW magazine or watched the GW programme for donkey's years. I agree that many of these are flawed/ impractical.  Location, space and time are important factors which are not often taken sufficiently into account. We can all sit down and prepare an ideal "plan" but most are just that - ideal. I don't know about the US but times have changed here and so have growing habits and regimes. Dig for Victory is long gone tho given what's happening in the world today, it may yet return  ;)  
    Like many on this forum, I have been growing my own veg/fruit for a long time but because I have moved house so many times. my planning alters frequently according to where I am. 

  • philippasmith2 
    i most problems people have in their vegetable
    gardens are a direct result of poor planning or
    being too ambitious with  what they can do in the
    garden with the amount time they have. 
  • I think that was precisely the point most were trying to get across.  However, I think we are beginning to repeat ourselves here so end of for me :)
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