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New idea for structuring planting beds
noakira
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Hello allotmenteers, amatuer veggie growers
Have come up with a simple new approach to structuring growing beds...
Its sort of in between (hybrid) open-soil and raised beds... but makes watering more efficient.
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Hmmm....if it quacks etc....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
In the sticks near Peterborough
Promoting a method of growing before you've even had one harvest ?????????
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Been pulling veggies for 3 weeks now... courgettes every couple of days, marrows on all 6 plants. multiple marrows all 10"+ (not picked yet but great growth), spinach and purple plum raddish's have all been doing the best I ever done. lose uncompacted well turned over soil and water going straight to the roots... also my plot is heavily shaded from the late afternoon onwards...
It does seem a bit presumptuous I realise, but honestly I am the worse veggie grower ever, I have struggled to grow stuff for the previous 6 years, Potatoes being about it.
But this idea of the sunken pallet has just been niggling at the back of my mind "How do I limit soil use but keep air getting to the soil and water down to the roots ?"
Cheers Tetley for the thumbs up... its a simple idea and can seem a lot of effort just to create 2 back to back borders.
But everyone i've spoken to about it seems to get it....
It seems a lot of messing about and effort to me and not particularly attractive either.
I have to agree, it is "function over form". Also its hard to sink them at a exact 90'. As you drive them into place they tend to move a few degree off vertical.
http://www.get-planting.co.uk/images/dramatic_growth_01.jpg
Is it unattractive or just non-traditional... a bit like wind turbines in the landscape. Unattractive to us oldies but accepted by youngsters as part of the landscape.