It looks huge I know. It pretty much doubles the size of the garden we had last year (and the picture doesn't even do it justice. I think the dimensions come out to be 35 by 60 feet.
This is the begining of the layout for the irrigation ditches:
I used rebar and a long measuring tape to mark my rows and keep them straight. Each bed is about 3 feet wide and surrounded on all sides by irrigation. I plan on planting the edges of the ditches and leaving the center of each row for a walking path so I can pull weeds easier.
This is the finished product with water flowing and everything:
The hardest part is leveling the ditches so the water flows down every row and doesn't overflow where I don't want it to. It took hours of shoveling and following the flow of the water around, but I think I got it to work pretty well. I'm sure there will be adjustments along the way, but for now it is good enough.
nice garden. glad to see some people still understand that the earth is our mother
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