In my latest video , I cut through some of the benefit of single - row gardening :

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When you want to originate food fast , simple and time - screen gardening method are the way to go . Just because single row horticulture is no longer as common as raised bed and intensive horticulture does not mean it is n’t a great method .

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Formarket gardeningandsurvival gardening , it ’s intemperate to circumvent the ease and simplicity of this try and true method acting . In a very inadequate period of clock time and with limited resources you’re able to get a destiny of nutrient fast .

This garden is implant in unmarried run-in with 3′ in between row , allow us to garden with piffling to no irrigation as well as apply very little fertilizer . It also makes the integral garden exceptionally easy to weed , especially withmy favorite cycle hoe .

Gardening does n’t have to be a pain in the neck opening and I hope everyone will learn that from my writing and videos .

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Thank you ! I just about pay up on gardening a few years ago because of YouTube gardening videos . I ’m sitting on 25 acres of body politic , but i had my misfortunate married man out ramp up raised beds . I was crawl around on the ground laying down plastic weed inhibit fabric and trying to figure out how to get everything to grow vertically . I bought expensive bags of insect casting and lost an entire tater craw to white potato microbe , which I was endeavor to kill with dish soap . I watched this woman planting in her raised beds while reciting verse and teaching me how to apply a black light at night to find oneself and squish horn worm on tomatoes . I had establish enough seeds for a zillion acres of farm country , and I ended up with like four love apple , six beautiful edible asparagus spears and a gigantic Petroselinum crispum bush ( which I never irrigate , weed , or looked at ) . No food , no merriment , and no verse . Then I watched your TV , and I call back , “ Hey , I ’ll just throw some seeds out , seek to weed , and perchance fertilise with dilute weewee . I ’m STILL digging tater that I forgot I implant , sweet potatoes that I never weeded , and tons of other food , some of which we ate tonight . No kidding , you are a vocalism crying out in the wild , and you saved me from boutique horticulture . And give thanks you for not cave to style . Grow on , my chum ! ! ! !

One of the primary thing I ’ve learned about gardening over the days is to grow what work in your area , as well as try out a variety of methods to see what works best for your climate and soil .

Another commentor , Chris Johnson writes :

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David I have read most of your Holy Writ some of them 3 or 4 times . You seem to have changed your focus . Is this because this is being grown for a market garden ?

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Yes – and also misfortunate land , no irrigation , needing food fast and much more space than common . Like I read , exclusive rows are not my primary method but are a useful tool . I have only garden this way once before , back in 2015 on some borrow ground without irrigation .

This is my previous experiment with individual - row gardening .

That was part of a larger plot we plant on a belongings in North Florida back in 2013 . regrettably , the owner turned out to be a sociopathic narcist who later tilled our crops under while we were out of town , but before he did we had enough winner to bang the method turn .

Those row of corn were feed with just DFSW ( high in volaille manure ) and did fine without supplementary irrigation .

My current wrangle gardens had some fish photographic emulsion and Dyna - Gro for minerals , as well as a little 10 - 10 - 10 just after set . They ’re really looking good .

Do n’t be afraid to examine different method and experiment with the great horticulture styles of the past .

Especially when you do n’t have irrigation . As Steve Solomon spell to me after I send my video :

“ horticulture without ( much ) irrigation only function well in single rows well spaced . Your soil has very slight capacitance to hold moisture , yet it fit for weeks without watering . Had you used wider in - the - course spacing it could have conk doubly as long without watering . ”

Wide spacing work ! The innovative intensive gardening movement is , like many other forward-looking apparent movement , not well-nigh as just as advertised .

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