Woody and/or Barbara said: >Say 40% of that is paths and tractor turnaround space, and you've >got 12,000 square feet of bed space,
I'm in the process of fencing a 7 acre garden. I plan on spading down cover crops and using a bedshaper for the first couple of years, but I also plan on getting the tractor out of the garden as soon as possible. The goal is permanent raised beds. Right now the garden area is too wet to have the tractor in to do a real-world tryout, but I really need to be determining how much space to leave for turnaround. In a way, I'd prefer to work to the fence and back out of the row, but I have to admit that in the long run, that's a literal pain in the neck and restrictive (or impossible later in the season.) How much land, my friends, do YOU set aside for end-of-row tractor turnabout? (ouch! with implements, of course.) I guess I'm hoping against hope that a few have worked out tricks that will keep me from setting all that fenced garden aside of tractor geometry a couple of times a season. -Allan
