On Jun 11, 6:32*am, "Giusi" wrote:
"Sheldon" ha scritto nel messaggio
*and there
are far better methods for controling weeds, crowding is the worst,
teh weeds will still grow, right between the plants where you won't
notice untll they're well established, and then you'll disturb the
bean plant roots when pulling the mature weeds.

My experience varies widely from your conjecture. *This method works best
for people who aren't growing bushels of anything, but it does work and is
considered a very good organic way to grow beans.

I also grow tagetes or marigold around most vegetables for insect control.

Both methods work. Your close planting is usually accompanied by
raised beds and more soil preparation and hand weeding. Googling on
"intensive gardening" or "biodynamis gardening" brings up many
references, and "square foot gardening" is a variant on it. We used
to use Sheldon's traditional methods and plant spacings and his
recommendations are well suited for it. Then we built a couple small
raised beds and mostly follow the square foot gardening
guidelines. -aem