Author Topic: which veg garden spacing methods will you be using in 2010 (Read 7209 times)

plainleaf2 · « **on:** October 30, 2009, 15:31:06 »

1. haphazard
2. standard row
3. wide row
4. french intensive
5. square foot
6. Biodynamic (John Jeavons)
7 multidimensional polycroping
8 different spacing method per veg (if so post which one for each veg)
9 don't know yet.

Flighty · « **Reply #1 on:** October 30, 2009, 15:50:03 »

I'll be using 10. none of your business!

saddad · « **Reply #2 on:** October 30, 2009, 15:57:06 »

and I think I'll be using Flighty's method... ::)

jimtheworzel · « **Reply #3 on:** October 30, 2009, 16:23:23 »

10 or 11 and a bit not made up my mind yet ???

grawrc · « **Reply #4 on:** October 30, 2009, 16:35:41 »

I would say a mixture of 4,5,6, 7 and 8. Only flowers get to be haphazard. The aesthetics of the plot are important to me too . I don't like rows on a purely aesthetic basis. I like mixtures. Oh and for square foot read square metre.

It is not haphazard in the slightest and I have already planned exactly what is going where (including intercropping, catch cropping and companion planting.) 8)

Don't it just make ya sick? ;D ;D ;D

BarriedaleNick · « **Reply #5 on:** October 30, 2009, 16:44:59 »

Ill be using the secret barriedalenick method.. :-X

manicscousers · « **Reply #6 on:** October 30, 2009, 17:31:29 »

depends how we feel, some things at 6, some at 18 :)

1066 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 30, 2009, 17:44:39 »

10 - Crop circles ;) :D ;)

Tee Gee · « **Reply #8 on:** October 30, 2009, 17:45:57 »

1. haphazard....never

2. standard row .....What do you mean by 'standard'?

3. wide row..... I only sow peas in this manner.

4. french intensive.....The Anglo Scottish way

5. square foot.....I only use my foot for measuring purposes its a foot long!

6. Biodynamic (John Jeavons)...???????? What is this?

7 multidimensional polycroping.....??????? What is this?

8 different spacing method per veg (if so post which one for each veg)..... Depend what I am growing but it is basically what it says on the packet.

9 don't know yet.............Answered in 8

BTW what has motivated such a question ???

It seem pretty elementary to me!!

cornykev · « **Reply #9 on:** October 30, 2009, 18:32:51 »

Mums the word. :-X ;D ;D ;D

shirlton · « **Reply #10 on:** October 30, 2009, 18:42:47 »

Nice at the start then wherever it fits

BarriedaleNick · « **Reply #11 on:** October 30, 2009, 18:46:39 »

Quote from: Tee Gee on October 30, 2009, 17:45:57

7 multidimensional polycroping.....??????? What is this?

Come on Tee-Gee

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=%22multidimensional+polycropping%22

Check the massive list of hits.. oh wait! ::)

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #12 on:** October 30, 2009, 22:27:12 »

I plan it on paper, then carefully hammer in stakes, tie strings, plant the row.
Then say, heck, I can probably squeeze in another row there.

Digeroo · « **Reply #13 on:** October 30, 2009, 23:20:55 »

I did not know that biodynamic was a spacing method, thought it was more about planting by the moon and burying horns containing various things around the plot. I have a sympathy with the moon, but burying horns is going a bit too far for me.

I use the shoe horn method. I do not like seeing bare soil, so every space is covered in plants.

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I can probably squeeze in another row there

If not two. ;D And I can get a quick crop of lettuce etc as well.

I must say that I generally treat each type differently.

grawrc · « **Reply #14 on:** October 30, 2009, 23:51:24 »

Biodynamic is very similar to intensive French (or whatever). I think its basis was in the whole Steiner ethos which you either like or not. Anyway spacing is certainly part of it since it is about getting maximal crop from minimal space and has been very successful in so doing.

And squeezing in the extra rows is of course a part of polycropping even if not always the multidimensional part.

Within whatever method you still need to give individual plants adequate space but how much space that is can vary depending on your approach to growing.

. · « **Reply #15 on:** October 31, 2009, 03:05:37 »

Dr..

plainleaf2 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 31, 2009, 05:32:28 »

LOOKS LIKE teachable moment to me.
I should have explained the various spacing methods and how they differ before asking which you plan on using.

PurpleHeather · « **Reply #17 on:** October 31, 2009, 06:44:18 »

Plant and hope as usual.

Digeroo · « **Reply #18 on:** October 31, 2009, 07:13:33 »

Did a quick google on some of the above and the only mention of multidimensional polycropping was the above posts. Presume this is a posh name for a three sisters bed.

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LOOKS LIKE teachable moment to me.
I should have explained the various spacing methods and how they differ before asking which you plan on using.

I am sure that those who are interested will do a quick google find out about them. Suggest you set up a blog somewhere. Perhaps you could put this in your book.

Biscombe · « **Reply #19 on:** October 31, 2009, 08:33:37 »

From what I've seen of other peoples number 6 gardens, 1 and 6 are the same! ;) :)

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Author Topic: which veg garden spacing methods will you be using in 2010 (Read 7209 times)