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How to handle the winter time blues
cracker:
Luckily we don't have much if any snow here winter is when we do your hunting. Summer is for fishing.Ron
Hillbilly:
Tim, double-dug raised beds are the way to go. It's amazing how much food you can grow in a few small beds.
DanaM:
Whats double dug mean, can't say I've ever heard that term ???
Pat B:
Dana, you dig out the bed and set soil aside. then dig it again and replace all the soil(basically). Gives you a deep, soft bed. Keep beds 4" wide so you can reach the middle and don't step on the soil and compact it. You can add compost under the top layer to feed roots and it will keep soil warmer in fall and winter...well, maybe not ya'lls winters.
We grow salad greens and spinach in fall and spring. If the spinach is big enough when winter comes a simple wire cloche and clear plastic will allow us to have fresh spinach all winter for us. Lettuce usually melts at the first hard freeze.
Grunt:
--- Quote from: Timo on February 09, 2010, 09:32:55 am ---Grunt, got a buddy with a mill that sold me that he will cut me some 2x8 red cedar. Should last a few years. Was gonna use osage, but just can't bring myself to laying it in the ground! ha
Staying away from anything treated. >:D
Planned on dbl dig with manure. We will see. Thanks.
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Timo, Make all your bed sizes the same. I did this and built two coldframes that I can sit on top of the bed frames. Base frame, ridge pole, two doors on hinges. Every year I pick them up move them to a new bed.
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