Have you read Steve Solomon’s book ‘Growing Food When it Counts’? He holds that the best way to produce survival quantities of food (like in the old days when they had to) is based on row cropping - not raised beds. Frankly, I have and use both systems, but I think he has a tremendous amount of insight and useful instruction in the book.
No I haven’t, but I will be putting in on the list. Thanks.
Using the raised beds is just me being lazy. That way I just put in good soil over the crappy clay we have here, and each year I improve the whole bed a little.
Hubby is the big producer here. I am just the experimenter.LOL
I read Steve’s first book several years ago. GROWING VEGETABLES WEST OF THE CASCADES which must have been written with our Humboldt Bay region in mind. I see it is in it’s sixth edition but I’m winding down my gardening. We still buy seeds from Territorial Seed the business he founded many years ago...