How many asparagus plants in a 4 x 4 raised bed?
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Comments (8)Wow, I'm new to Garden Web and excited to find a thread so exactly on topic for me, I was looking for help in figuring out how deep raised beds will have to be for rhubarb and aspargus as well as other insights to growing them by this method. It seems like an old thread though so I'll see if anyone answers. Also seems to be a bit of attitude going on here, the first I've seen in the garden web-hopefully the last. Anyway I am finally buying a house and swore that I would plant these two crops, rhubarb and aspargues, as soon as I was a home owner, because they take so long to establish. The home I am buying has a concrete RV pad in the side yard with full sun. So my first contact with the garden web was results on a query to whether I could build raise beds right on the pad. The answer was yes and there were great pictures of other folks beds made of used concrete blocks-satisfying all my criteria including going with surplus materials. So I am very happy to have found you all and this terrific resource. I need to figure out how to get in a more current thread though. I'm looking forward to dishing dirt (garden soil) with y'all. Hoping someone can help me out with the question of how deep the beds need to be. Thanks-Hatzi...See MoreHow Many Summer Squash seeds to a 4'x4'?
Comments (11)Thanks everyone for your advice, this 4'x4' is a single bed, so if the plants exceeds their space they won't be encroaching on other plants. We are going with two plants. EG - 54 fruits from 4 plants was wonderful! As for the butternut, after reading your posts, I've decided to plant one seed in a 4x8 bed with the trellised cucumbers and give it full run of the bed. This bed is also going to be covered with insect cloth. The other butternut will go on the old rose trellis and we will have to beat off the bugs. I love squash, can't you tell! I saute crookneck squash with sliced onions in butter and my husband says it like eating candy. My other 4x8 will be planted with trellised pole beans, bush limas, and cherry tomatoes, green onions and 2 eggplants. The okra will be in a bed on the west side of the house in native soil with compost added. Granny, this is for you - loved your idea for using clorox bottles cut up for plant stakes, what about using old wire lamp shade frames for plant supports?...See MoreBlueberries in 8'x4' raised beds
Comments (3)I grow some of my blueberries in raised beds. Our beds are approximately 4'x4' and they aren't very raised, but they work nicely for allowing walking space around the bushes. We have one bush per bed. Depending on the variety, you could probably fit 2 or 3 bushes per 8'x4' bed. My Jersey, which is about 7 years old, takes up its 4'x4' pretty completely. Berkley is about 3 and still has a fair amount of space around it, but it will probably want most of its space. I have a Bluegold that has suffered some from wildlife damage when it was a baby, so it's definitely small for its age, but being a smaller variety, I suspect it will only need about half of its bed; it has bulbs and similar in the corners. I have two others, a Northland and a native, that live outside the beds. All seem to do pretty equally in terms of growth. I would say I get more of the berries from the ones in the beds (well, except poor Bluegold, which hasn't gotten back to berrying size), but I think that's more that the ones outside the beds are just too close to the woods and easy pickings for birds. Jersey is doing wonderfully, and Berkley is a great producer. I think I like the flavor of Berkley a bit better. The beds are surrounded by a metal fence, but it has wide openings that allow bunnies and turkeys to still run through. We cage all but Jersey (too big) with tall bunny wire. It protects them from critters that want to nibble on the branches and steal the berries and lawn services that don't realize that they've walked three feet into a garden with their string trimmers. Birds can still get to them, but it's at least a bit of deterrent. You'd have to net or tent if you really want to protect your fruit from everything. Please ignore the fact that these beds seriously needed to be weeded in this picture ... but that's Jersey in the front and Berkley being overrun by a weed in the back. This was taken around November (just before final weeding and raking), I can try to find some spring or summer pictures later. You can sort-of see the dark green wire cage around Berkley if you look really carefully....See MoreWhat is the best size for a frost blanket to fit a 4x8 ft. raised bed?
Comments (5)Really hard to understand how pillowcase-like frost covers can work. What a frost cover does is to include the warmer soil inside the bag, and that warmer soil keeps the air warmer. That's why a blanket used as a frost tent works. If that warmer soil isn't exposed to the air in the bag, there is no way the air inside the bag will be warmer. Bags around people (coats) keep us warm because we generate heat, and our coats prevent loss of that heat. Plants don't generate heat. So the temperature inside the bag will pretty much duplicate the temperature outside the bag, though depending on the amount of insulation and the amount of thermal mass in the pot, it may take a little time to equilibrate. It is sort of a joke when there is a frost, and people wrap their trees in what looks like kind of a coat. One could argue that exposure to wind cools the plant and pot faster, but the final temperature will be the same with or without wind....See Morenaturegirl_2007 5B SW Michigan
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