- Refer to your seed list and begin arranging the crops in the garden map. Use square foot garden spacing or the recommended space between plants indicated on the back of your seed package to estimate how many plants you can grow in an area. Step 3: Start with High Value Crops. Start plotting your garden with the crops you consider important.
- Square foot gardening is an easy option for beginners. If you don't have room for more than one 4×4 raised garden bed, this is the vegetable garden layout for you. The veggies are placed to reduce overlap, allowing each plant to grow strong. To begin square foot gardening, prepare a raised garden box.
- With our free online planner, you can get the blueprints to a super-productive vegetable garden, based on square-foot gardening techniques instead of traditional rows. Click the Pre-Planned Gardens to get a quick start. Choose from 26 options, including many designed just for elevated raised beds. To create your own garden, click Plan Your Own.
- This garden is designed for a 7-foot by 7-foot planting area. Each of the 14 sections measures 1-foot deep and 3-feet wide. In most cases, we put 6 plants in each section (about 2 plants per 1-foot x 1-foot area). The sunflowers were not planted as densely.
Square Foot Gardening is an easy to understand method of planting vegetables which splits a gardeners plot into square foot areas rather than into rows. This system is especially good for beginners as it makes plant spacing much easier and also makes more sense for growing in a small space as most beginners do.
We hope you enjoyed our first article Plant Spacing Chart for Veggies. As promised, this is the follow up with plant spacing info for square foot gardening.
Square foot gardening allows you to plant much closer. In order to make growing a garden easier, we have put together a plant spacing chart to help you.
| Plant Variety | Plants per Square |
| Arugula | 4 |
| Basil | 4 |
| Bean-Bush | 1-4 |
| Bean-Pole | 1-4 |
| Beets | 9 |
| Broccoli | 1 (18' spacing is best) |
| Brussels Sprouts | 1 |
| Cabbage | 1 |
| Chinese Cabbage | 9 |
| Carrots | 16 |
| Cauliflower | 1 (18' spacing is best) |
| Corn | 4 |
| Cucumber | 2 |
| Eggplant | 1 |
| Greens-baby harvest | 16 |
| Greens-mature harvest | 4-8 |
| 1 | |
| Kohlrabi | 4 |
| Leeks | 4-8 |
| Lettuce-heading | 1-4 |
| Lettuce-loose leaf | 4 |
| Okra | 1 |
| Onion | 4 |
| Parsnips | 16 |
| Peas | 1 |
| Peppers | 1 |
| Pigeon Peas | 1 |
| Pumpkin | 1 |
| Radicchio | 2-4 |
| Radish | 16 |
| Rhubarb | 1 |
| Rutabaga | 4 |
| Shallots | 4 |
| Spinach | 9 |
| Squash-summer | 1 |
| Squash-winter | 1 |
| Sweet Potato | 1 |
| Swiss Chard | 4 |
| Tomatillo | 1 |
| Tomatoes | 1 |
| Turnips | 9 |
| HERBS: | |
| BASIL | 4 |
| CALENDULA | 1-4 |
| CHIVES | 9 |
| CILANTRO | 9 |
| DILL | 1 |
| FENNEL | 4 |
| OREGANO | 1 |
| PARSLEY | 1 |
| ROSEMARY | 1 |
| SAGE | 1 |
| TARRAGON | 1 |
| THYME | 4 |
| FRUIT | |
| Garden Huckleberry | 1 |
| Melon | 1 (18'-24' spacing is best) |
| Watermelon | 1 (18'-24' spacing is best) |
Proper plant spacing can help reduce plant disease and maintain healthy plant.
Using this chart, it's easy enough to interplant Companion Plants in your garden. If you're wondering what to plant and when to plant in your area, check out our 2018 Planting Guide for the US. We added a few new regions this year.
For additional planting info we have an entire page GROWING TIPS & VIDEOS to help you grow a healthy, successful garden
Using this chart, it's easy enough to interplant Companion Plants in your garden. If you're wondering what to plant and when to plant in your area, check out our 2018 Planting Guide for the US. We added a few new regions this year.
For additional planting info we have an entire page GROWING TIPS & VIDEOS to help you grow a healthy, successful garden
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