Using Rows & Hills to Plant a Garden

Part of the Video Series How to Grow Organic Vegetables

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An expert shows how to design rows and hills for planting vegetables and other plants in your own organic garden in this free gardening video lesson for beginners.

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Posted by faterauf on Friday, 13 April, 2007 at 11:51 AM

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She needs to be more specfic and add why she is doing what she does. I like her topics, but I don't even know how to build a bed for organic gardening.

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Using Rows & Hills to Plant a Garden
This is my organic garden, and once you get the soil prepared and ready to plant, then you have to put the dirt in rows or hills, depending on what you’re planting. So I’ll demonstrate that.

Right here, I’ll make a row, and this will be for cucumbers. So I’ll pull the dirt the mulch- to the side, because I want to put that on the plant afterwards. And I’m going to mix the sandy loam with the clay, limestone, kalichy-type soil that has been worked for many years, so it’s in pretty good shape. And see how loose the soil is? That’s a result of preparing the soil twice a year for about twenty years. So this will be for cucumbers, and what I’ll do is make a hill. It doesn’t have to be a big hill. There- that’s a hill. Now, what I’ll do is put three cucumbers in the top of each hill, and I’ll spread the hills about five or six- about four or five feet apart.

The other way to plant, and the most common way that I plant, is in a row. And again, to plant this, I’ll mix the sandy loam in with my clay, kalichy-type soil. And I’m planting okra and that has to be planted at a certain depth- each seed has a different depth that it’s planted at. And then I drag my cultivating tool along to make a row- to make a little ditch that the seeds go in. And I do that along each one of these rows all the way down.

About the Expert

Expert: Gale Gassiot has been involved in organic gardening for over 30 years. Read More