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nick615 why do think raised bed are waste space

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    @Jenny_Aster - you'll be banging your head off the wall for evermore. Save yourself - walk away and have some painkillers. Much better for the blood pressure too   ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Fairygirl  Amen to that.  
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I know we don't always agree re raised beds @nick615 - but, save yourself - run for the hills .... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812
    Skandi said:
    @MikeOxgreen Dove has it right, where the beans are harvested by pulling up/cutting the entire plant, so you only get one harvest. Not how we do it in the garden where one plant will be harvested over several weeks.
    I can see why they do it, the dwarf variety don't crop for as long as the climbers.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That’s because most of the modern dwarf varieties were developed to suit commercial growers. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Thanks Fairygirl.  I know Ben Lawers, so I'll try that?  N
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664

    Jenny_Aster https://squarefootgardening.org/humanitarian-global-success/
    is charity he set up to spend profits from his book 
    and since he pasted away few years a ago it is his legacy to
    help gardeners around the world.  

    I met him several  years ago when he gave talk at garden show in
    Philadelphia. and his new book came out.  
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