Intensive Planting Beds
The surest way to increase the yield from a vegetable garden is to reduce the space between plants. The idea is to plant wide bands, thus reducing the amount of ground devoted to paths.
Intensive planting of plants requires a garden soil of maximum fertility. Results will usually be unsatisfactory when vegetables are crowded in a gardening area that has not yet been sufficiently enriched to support a heavy plant population.
INTENSIVE PLANTING
Chemical interactions also affect plants growing in close proximity, either promoting or retarding their growth, and health, above and below ground.
Intensive Planting Techniques
... method is most often used to coax high yields of vegetables from small. More
High-Density Planting ...
The biointensive planting method includes no single planting of plants and no mechanized equipment if at all possible. The biointensive soil building belief is that machinery uses too much energy and leaves soil too susceptible to erosion.
Next to intensive planting, trellising represents the most efficient way to use space in the garden.
A French Lesson in Intensive Planting
French intensive gardening isn't for the faint of heart (or weak of back).
This intensive planting approach livens up the space and can shield it, visually, from the tightly-packed buildings nearby. Pergolas or trimmed trees offer privacy, while dense planting can achieve a more naturalistic effect.
Raised beds and plastic growing bags in conjunction with intensive planting, double cropping (combining, say, 'Bushwhopper' cukes with four kinds of lettuce), succession planting, tower-caging and square-foot gardening, ...
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You can carry them outside and fill them with dirt as soon as the snow is gone. Even this slight elevation of your garden results in warmer soil, improved drainage and allows for more intensive planting—all of which leads to larger yields.
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