At the moment I’m afraid I don’t have time for an in-depth article on square foot gardening, maybe sometime soon though. In the mean time, you can get some of the details from the Square Foot Gardening Website.

This post is to help me (and all you readers out there) remember the recommended spacings for various types of vegetables in each square foot patch of land. In general, the following amounts of each vegetable will maximize (but not overcrowd) your use of a well fertilized one square-foot patch of ground:

Vegetable

Plants Per Square Foot

Basil

1

Beans, Bush

9

Beans, Pole

8

Beets

16

Broccoli

1

Cabbage

1

Carrots

16

Cauliflower

1

Celery

4

Chard, Swiss

4

Corn

1

Cucumber

2

Eggplant

1

Garlic

4

Leeks

9

Lettuce

4

Marjoram

4

Okra

2

Onions

16

Oregano

4

Parsley

4

Peas

8

Peppers

1

Potatoes

1

Radishes

16

Savory

1

Scallions

36

Spinach

9

Sweet Potatoes

2

Thyme

4

Tomatoes

1

Watermelon

1

Zucchini

1