looks like i was correct. you all don't seem know how plan properly.
Can I ask how you come to this conclusion and what you suggest I am doing wrong, bearing in mind how I garden and what I want to achieve? You did say you wanted to help and correct my problems.
my plan for bed one the top bed on hill terraces 4 ft wide 20 ft long.
my feedback is… your plan shows 180 beets, 180 beans, 48 sweetcorn, 64 black radish and 2 squash! you say your bed is 4ft wide and your plan shows 12 segments so this equates to a 4inch square per plant yet you are giving the black radish 8 inch spacing, and corn only 8 inches apart? Are you sowing these all at once or successionally? You say this is just one of your beds? I hope you have plenty of space to store your harvest as I feel trying to consume 180 beets will be tedious.
Emptyheadtime yes they are planted successionally. beets: get roasted and canned. sweet corn: for fresh eating and freezing red radish for salads black radish they are for living mulch, soil fertilizing , clay breaking,roasting and pickling. beans: are for fresh eating and drying squash: are for grilling and salads.
Emptyheadtime BenCotto your answers told me you didn't know how plan proper. if you did you would have posted a basic plan.
Actually, I did construct a plan a few days ago but I could not work out how to transfer it into this text box. Using a second iPad I took a photo of it. Here you go
The bed is 8’ x 4’. I grow strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and runner beans elsewhere. On an earlier post I think I said I spend about 10 minutes a year planning my vegetable growing. Well, you’ve now had 7 minutes’ worth. I will spend the remains three minutes deciding the exact boundaries between the various crops.
However - and sit down when you read the next bit - I might actually decide to put wild flowers and flowers for cutting in this raised bed and forget about vegetables altogether. Slugs, snails, caterpillars, birds, mildew, late frosts, strong winds, gluts … it all gets a bit dispiriting. Also, I have never fully accepted the assertion that home grown produce tastes so much better than supermarket offerings. I don’t think my palate is sophisticated enough to discern any difference half of the time.
So comment, if you wish, on my slapdash, back-of-an-envelope, make-it-up-as-you-go-along ways. Spontaneity and fluidity have many advantages over rigidity and constraint.
Emptyheadtime BenCotto your answers told me you didn't know how plan proper. if you did you would have posted a basic plan.
your answers told me you make a lot of assumptions about people as you know very little about me or my gardening. Why do you feel the plan in my head is not sufficient? What makes your plan in anyway better? There is no right way, just what’s right for that person/situation.
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4 ft wide 20 ft long.
you didn't know how plan proper. if you did you
would have posted a basic plan.
your plan shows 180 beets, 180 beans, 48 sweetcorn, 64 black radish and 2 squash!
you say your bed is 4ft wide and your plan shows 12 segments so this equates to a 4inch square per plant yet you are giving the black radish 8 inch spacing, and corn only 8 inches apart? Are you sowing these all at once or successionally? You say this is just one of your beds? I hope you have plenty of space to store your harvest as I feel trying to consume 180 beets will be tedious.
yes they are planted successionally.
beets: get roasted and canned.
sweet corn: for fresh eating and freezing
red radish for salads
black radish they are for living mulch, soil fertilizing , clay breaking,roasting and pickling.
beans: are for fresh eating and drying
squash: are for grilling and salads.
that basic premise suggest you post a picture your plan.