Bed Preparation In The Market Garden

Here is how we prepare our permanent beds using minimum tillage techniques.

To start off, our soil is covered with a UV treated black tarp for two to three weeks. This smothers the previous crop and cleans out
the weeds.

Raised beds have a tendency to settle over time.So we use a rotary
plow fixed to our walking tractor to build them up again.

We then use a broadfork to deeply aerate the soil and encourage root development in the next vegetable crop
We spread the amendments over the bed and mix them in with a rotary harrow to a depth of 2 inches. The rotary harrow has a roller in the back that tamps down the soil and levels the bed. The bed is now ready to receive the crop.

Not counting the tarp treatment, it takes about 30 minutes to prepare one 100-foot-long bed. For maximum efficiency in the preparation step, all the tools we use are standardized to a width of
30 inches and can do the job completely in a single
pass. The elements of our system are described below

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