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RE: The Land, The Plot, The Bed and The Plan A four part series on land development-Part 3 The Bed
Wow, that looks like a lot of work there.
I have little soil here as I am on a mountainside so I largely have to use raised beds. Once I have them established I have been experimenting with the no-dig method put forward by for example Charles Dowding :
It's really not as hard as one would think.
If I have all the materials on hand(compost, mulch, tarps, etc), it only takes me about 4 hours to make 300 feet of bed.
Dowdings work is awesome!
Looks like you have pretty good soil there. Presumably quite free of rocks?
Almost rock-free. When I run across rocks (which is rare) its almost always sandstone. Generally its thumbnail size, but occasionally I've come across some large cut stone on old homesteads.