PREPARE THE LAND

Basic Competency 3

Identify Making special

planting beds media for specific
plant
1. Pengertian Bedengan
 Planting beds are intentionally made farmers to plant
crops and vegetables with a width of a certain height,
and between the two beds separated by a channel or
drainage ditch that is useful for the water to soil
aeration or soil moisture in the beds stay awake
2. The purposed of Planting bed

Destination making beds:

1. Make a planting media
2. Avoid flooding
3. Facilitate the planting, maintenance and   harvesting
4. Adjust spacing
3. way of making beds

a. After 2 weeks left to be processed, so that good air

circulation
b. The land size beds with a spacing in accordance with
c. Generally the size of beds are made with 1,2-1,5
meters wide, the length of land suitable conditions, an
average of 10 m
d. Appropriate conditions and long distances, while land   
between the beds are made from 50 to 60 cm
e. High beds in the dry season from 10 to 40 cm,
whereas in the rainy season increased to 60 cm,
depending on the commodity
f. As the formation of beds can be made giving manure
from 20 to 30 tons per hectare depending on soil
fertility
4. Making beds Highlands Vegetable
Cultivation

a. Beds in the direction of the slope

- Most vegetable farmers beds made lengthwise
direction of the slope with a width of 70 – 120 cm with
a height of 20 to 30 cm along the slope
- Beds are made along the slope will increase erosion
and nutrient washout during rain resulting in lower
soil fertility
- Humidity and good aeration
b. Diagonal to the slope beds
- Created farmers to reduce erosion by making beds,
450 of the contour
- The level of erosion is high, because the flow
between the beds are still high and erode beds
- Humidity and good aeration
c. Beds with mulch
- Many benefits in jobs and prevent the destruction of
the land surface, however, the water flow is
concentrated in the trenches and channels that will
erode the bottom of the ditch and erosion still occur
- Beds are still made in the direction of the slope
d. Beds in the patio bench
- Some farmers tried to make the beds in the patio
bench, but without stabilizing the patio and terrace
border landslide
- If the incline bench terrace outside and the outside
edge is left open terrace erosion still occurs
5. Making conservation Beds

There are two main reasons farmers do not use the

conservation techniques on their land efforts (law
Grace, 2006)
1. Beds that cut slopes or the direction of hard and hard
to do
2. Bbeds paralel of the contour is seen as rain puddles,
though only temporarily
 Some conservation research (Act Kurnia, et.al) concluded
that:
a. Beds are made with a width from 70 to 120 cm in length
from 4 to 5 m cut by terrace bed and contour can be
pushed in the direction of erosion on land bumpy, hilly and
mountainous
b. On that beds, the erosion decreased 50 - 70% on
beds 4-5 m and 90-95% in beds in the direction of the
contour
c. Vegetable production does not differ much with the
beds in the direction of the slope, but has a high ability to
preserve agro ecosystems