Spacing Intensive Gardens Dfw
Square Foot Gardens Spacing, Space, Spaces, How Many to Plant, Green Scheme Dallas Fort Worth DFW North Central Texas
Dallas-Fort Worth, NorthCentral Texas
Plant Spacing for intensive Gardens
Summary: Intensive Gardening Spacing
In general, you will put one plant per square foot in your garden. However, not every plant needs the entire square foot and some need more than one square foot. This will help you space your plants.
One plant in a square (one foot space between plants) cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, pepper, eggplant, okra, tomato
Four plants in a square (six inch space between the plants) lettuce, Swiss chard, bush beans, bak choi, choi sum, komatsuna, Indian mustard
Nine plants in a square (four inch space between the plants) lettuce (cos, mini), beet root, radish, spinach, leaf amaranth, garlic
Sixteen plants in a square (three inch space between the plants) radish, carrot, spring onion, celery
Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash. melons must be grown on trellis or need more than 1 space–up to 4 spaces.
Intensive Garden Spacing by Plant
Beans: bush-type 9/sqft; pole-type 8/sqft
Celery: 4/sqft (6″)
Cucumbers: 2/sqft in a row of 4 sqft (6″ apart along middle of sqft row)
Garlic: 4/sqft (6″)
Leeks: 9/sqft (
Muskmelons: 1/sqft (grow in row of 4 squares, on trellis)
Scallions: 36/sqft (2″)
Squash, Summer: vine-type 3/4sqft (see special grid); bush-type 1/3sqft (see special grid)
Squash, Winter: 1/2sqft (see special grid)
Sweet Potatoes: 2/sqft
Tomatoes: bush-type: 4/4sqft (see special grid); vine-type 1/sqft (in row of 4 on trellis)
Watermelon: bush-type 1/sqft; vine-type 1/2sqft – both kinds along trellis
Source: Shalagram Das at Kalachandji Community Garden, Dallas
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