Saturday, April 16, 2016

Getting ready for big planting

So, the community garden plot is about 17' x 55 '.   I thought it was going to be 12' wide but turns out it's 17', so, that gives more room than I thought.  Based on that, it will be easy to have 4 rows set 3 ft. apart with a couple feet on the outsides too.   Therefore each row could have 20 plants at about 2.5 ft spacing = 80 plants.  I'm thinking to have 3 rows of just F2s and one row of heirlooms.  The tough thing will be choosing the numbers of each variety.   I will have to reduce spacing to 2 ft to fit more and that is kind of tight.

Last week I measured and hoed the 4 rows so the spacing is good.  Actually the rows are about 3.5 ft apart so (hopefully) the 3' wide mats will fit well.

The lot is actually not a perfect rectangle but a slightly skewed parallelogram.

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