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Find the right space for your crop

Compare growing systems and open a planting layout with editable, sourced examples.

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Tomato spacing and bed layout

Make room for vining tomatoes and their supports. Review both directions of spacing before fitting a row into a bed.

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Pepper spacing and bed layout

Compare the outdoor pepper row system with the bed you can reach and maintain. Nursery tray spacing is a separate measurement.

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Cucumber spacing and bed layout

This cucumber layout models individual transplants in rows. Choose another arrangement deliberately if growing clusters in hills or using a different trellis system.

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Zucchini spacing and bed layout

Give a zucchini transplant a clear place to grow and leave a practical route for frequent picking. The selected row system is different from clustered hills.

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Lettuce spacing and bed layout

Choose a harvest stage before counting lettuce plants. Full heads, mini heads and baby leaves are separate reviewed systems.

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Kale spacing and bed layout

Choose whether kale will be direct seeded, transplanted or kept for baby leaves. Each method has a different reviewed final stand.

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Carrot spacing and bed layout

Plan the final thinned carrot stand, then estimate the seeds needed to establish it. The initial sowing pattern and the eventual root spacing are different quantities.

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Beet spacing and bed layout

The selected beet preset is a wide-bed system with equal final spacing in both directions. It is intentionally different from a row-and-path arrangement.

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Radish spacing and bed layout

Use this preset for ordinary small-root radishes after thinning. Large storage radishes and daikon need a different reviewed arrangement.

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Bush bean spacing and bed layout

Use the bush-bean row preset for a compact, unsupported bean crop. Pole-bean support and row rules are kept in a separate record.

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Sweet corn spacing and bed layout

Treat a sweet-corn planting as a pollination block. A layout that fits many plants in one long row does not meet the selected growing method.

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Basil spacing and bed layout

This basil preset is for established plants grown in outdoor rows for leaf harvest. Microgreens and mature container specimens use different space assumptions.

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