"John Price" wrote ...

Greetings - I have a patch of land that has been just lawned for
several years, and I'm planning on turning some of it into a vegt
patch. Never grown veg before.

The land is virtually south facing and a very slight slope southward.
Plenty of sun all day long.

I'm picturing the patch will be 5 metres long North-South and about 5.5
metres wide.

Having read about crop rotation, I'm wondering about having 3 strips
about 1.5 metres wide, with paths in between. Then I could roate each
strip as a whole.

Or I could do 4 strips, 1 metre wide, again with paths in between.

I was wondering if anyone has any comment on practical issues about
having strips like that, and/or whether there would be any issues based
on experience about the width of the strips.


You have a small plot and you want to waste half of it on paths? Paths that
have to be maintained too. That is absurd. Cultivate the whole plot and use
4 posts at halfway along each side to split it up into four squares by eye,
you then have your 4 year rotation and no soil or time wasting paths.
If you soil is sticky you may wish to get some boards to work off so as not
to compact the soil.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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