Space advice

[salome2001]

Sounds interesting - although I'll have to find something other than Excel to 'draw' it onto, Excel hasn't evolved passed squares yet

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[piskieinboots]

Here is my revised plan - there are no salad crops showing because I have space to grow them at home.

Any thoughts?

ETA: apologies, my server appears to be down!

[Bigmallly]

What's a comb design?

Just a quick example of a comb from your measurements. It includes:
1 bed 48'x4'
8 beds 10'x4'
2'paths all round.

[zazen999]

They are still very wide - mark out 2m on the floor and see how far you can put a full tin of soup into the middle.

[piskieinboots]

You can see the pdf Zaz? I keep seeing 'Server down'!!
*off to get a full tin of soup

Thanks, appreciate it

[zazen999]

Just a quick example of a comb from your measurements. It includes:
1 bed 48'x4'
8 beds 10'x4'
2'paths all round.

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That's a long walk round if you want to get round it!

[Bigmallly]

That's a long walk round if you want to get round it!

Yeh, I know. It was just to show Suzie what a comb design was. The 48' would be divided into 3 or 4 separate beds.

[piskieinboots]

And again - here - and thank you for your patience

Thanks BM, I get the comb now

[zazen999]

3 and a half hours to retrieve a can of beans from the middle of a 2m bed. That's a record!

[piskieinboots]

And!

[Alison]

And again - here - and thank you for your patience

I like that one, I assume you've got 2 permanent beds for fruit (or whatever) and then 2 beds per 4 year rotation, if so would work well and is quite similar to part of mine. The beds are big enough to be manageable but not too big although it does depend a bit on what you want to grow, I assume the 1m wide fits with your arm reach though although I find the extra 200mm of a 4' wide bed is useful to get an extra kale or sprout plant in with better spacing although you can always offset so I'm probably just prattling on

Re raised beds, I wouldn't bother with them either but a basic wooden frame (say 6 to 9" deep) that you can sink an inch or so into the soil of the bed is really handy to delineate the edge of the bed and stop the paths creeping in without you realizing it. These can easily be moved if you don't like the plan - although you are obviously set with the bed size.