Re: [CH] Growing Chiles in Raised Beds
Islandman (islandman@islandman.com)
Tue, 15 May 2001 09:28:14 -0400
Sandy:
Thanks for your note. I'll probably try some Square Foot Gardening with the
peppers this year. Unfortunately, I won't be able to go with the 4' x 4'
beds you use because my 8' x 8' are all ready to go. I think I'm simply go
to allow a little extra space down the middle of each box (vertically and
horizontally) so I can make my way to the center for harvesting peppers from
the inside plants:
[P][P][P] [] [P][P][P]
[P][P][P] [] [P][P][P]
[P][P][P] [] [P][P][P]
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[P][P][P] [] [P][P][P]
[P][P][P] [] [P][P][P]
[P][P][P] [] [P][P][P]
Thanks again. I'll let you know how it all works out.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Sandy Olson <sandyo@willowtree.com>
To: <Chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CH] Growing Chiles in Raised Beds
> I raised chiles and tomatoes in two square foot gardens (raised beds
4'x4')
> last summer. I did as instructed and marked off 16 square foot "plots" in
> each bed and planted one plant per square. They flourished and are so
easy
> to keep weed free because you can walk all the way around them. You never
> compact the soil by walking on it. Don't think you could plant them much
> closer than that as they got really big and leafy but also produced loads
of
> peppers. The tomatoes didn't fare as well...got some sort of blight that
> took all the leaves off mid-season and left these naked plants with the
> tomatoes hanging on them....weird!
>
> SandyO
> CH #1146 of the moderate persuasion, growing only moderate chile plants of
> course!