Raised Beds Gardening.

Here we are planting our Hot Peppers in the new garden bed we just finished. I made a lot of mistakes during this video, sorry! I put in captions to try and help. We are very amateur about all this and don’t know all the official lingo. The opening was meant to instruct on how to know where to start planting in a new garden bed. Our Hot Peppers are recommended 12-18″ apart. You should always use the minimum as they print extra space for error margin. Unless you compost tea and put super food on them, they won’t need the extra space. To start a bed, take your first plant’s minimum spacing and divide in half. For us, that was 6″. This is to get the radius, since all measurements are plant to plant and each plant needs that area for it’s root ball. As we are in the corner, go in 6″ and up 6″ to get the placement of the first plant. This establishes your first row’s placement. In our case, the next row would be 18″ from the bottom, giving 12″ from the plant plus the 6″ for the first plant’s radius. As you can see, I goofed and did the next planting at 6″. In our case, not a big deal as we dug our garden bed 2 feet deep. The roots can go down for plenty of food. We turned compost in the entire depth. We view this as an experiment as we need to know how close we can plant things with deep beds to maximize our urban space. We will dig up the root balls at the end of the season and measure their success. We are also recording out yields vs planting bed style vs plant type. We …

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