Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I am planning to do the new garden, and have decided to use this Mittleider Method. I have lots of cinder blocks to make the raised beds, but wonder how wide they should be made? I was thinking 4 feet, by as long as I want. I have planted last years crops in the buckets and SWC, and received tons of tomatoes and peppers, but want to incorporate the new method for beans, and vining crops. I plan to use chicken wire to drap over the T-pole, for the veggies to grow up. Is this strong enough? I do have some heavy field fence, if the chicken wire wont work. If I do this with beans, what can I plant under the "tent" of vines? or is it just wasted space?.....Linda B

Linda & Group:

We recommend you plant one row of beans per bed and use baling twine string fastened every 1 1/2-2" to tie-wire strung at ground level between the T's along the edge of the bed, and every other twine is tied to the wood, pipe, wire, or whatever you're using on opposite sides of the T's at the top.

Plant nothing else in the beds for best success and least trouble.

Jim Kennard

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