I have been reading about this style of gardening for the last six months. The first thing I planted was my Chef's salad. I worked a plot of soil two feet wide by eight feet long. I had an empty parsley bottle with a shaker top. I mixed radish, carrot, and at least three kinds of leaf lettuce seeds. I sprinkled the seeds over the entire plot of ground as if I was putting salt or pepper on the ground. Next I put the rake over the plot to cover the seeds. Then I pushed some red and white onion sets into the soil. The radishes were the first thing that was ready. When you pull a few radishes, it makes room for the lettuce. A few photos: Next to the chef's salad, I planted a pack of spinach. I like spinach leaves in my salad, too. My two pet rabbits like spinach and radish leaves, too. Next I had winter sown arugala. That was in the last square. I put a few of those leaves in my salad today. That I do not like. I had to try it though. lol. A lady on another gardening site had some seed potatoes left over after planting. She said she would give them to the first two people who would pay shipping would get them. I got 13 pieces. I have 13 potatoes growing. That rabbit fertilizer really helps. I planted these in a square. In wide row planting things are not planted in rows, it is more like planting in a bed. You have to be able to reach halfway into the bed to weed or pick your vegetables. I made three holes across the bed for the potatoes. The second row I made the two holes (in the two spaces of the three holes in the first row) and then three two and three. I started brocoli using the winter sowing method. I planted that using the three two method, too. The sweet corn I planted in regular rows. The bush beans I plant two rows close together. You have to be able to reach halfway across the bed to pick the beans. Don
I've never heard of wide row gardening before. It looks more exciting than veggies in a row. I would be sceptical if someone told me to do it, but it really sounds like it's working. Congratulations on getting the potatoes. I hope they will taste divine. Your veggies all look very healthy.
Don, You are able to get much more production from the garden this way Yours looks great. I agree on the arugala, too. . I plant my onion, beets and radishes in rows about 6" apart in groups of 3 or 4. I know I will still have to weed them so I do it in rows so I can get it weeded.
Don, there are lots of crops that adapt well to wide row planting, and it seems you found most of them! Very good looking garden you have there. I like to do wide row whenever I can. There is less space wasted on paths, and less weeding to do since the plants pretty well choke out weeds. About the only things that don't do well in wide rows are plants that need support, or that get quite tall, like corn and okra. Carolyn, love that emoticon, although I admit I like arugula in a salad!
My dad is 80+ he has been using this wide row method for a while now and always has plenty to share. Like has been said less weeds and more produce.
