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Old 28-02-2010, 05:03 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Intensive Gardening Has My Interest

"EVP MAN" wrote

Intensive gardening seems to produce great crops with many added
advantages to single row planting. I'm going to give it a shot this
year. I'm going to use a 50'x3 1/2' bed and see what happens as far as
the results. I like the idea of NO wasted space! My garden will be


Cool! I'm still just working mostly with containers. It's more like I am a
bit finicky that I dont want my dog peeing on what I eat, and I dont want to
eat something that got flea yard sprayed either.

That said, I have a fairly extensive container garden as far as they go.
Most of my life was in apartments with a porch (2nd floor or higher) as my
only growing space so this comes pretty easy to me.

Point is, I never *had* space to waste so things were fairly thickly planted
and still are closer than recommended. Here ones that doesnt *care* if you
thin it out by directions. Baby lettuce and Butter Lettuce. The butter
lettuce may be smaller but you still get more per ft of growing room if you
just let it do it's thing.