Grid-Planting Diagrams for Great-Growing Veggies

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Placing plants in your vegetable garden is easy when you use a grid system. Each diagram below shows how to plant the seed or seedlings of one or more vegetable species, whether you’re planting in the ground or in a raised bed. Plant adjacent areas using the same or different grids, and mix different vegetable species in your beds to vary your harvest.

Some diagrams allow multiple plants in a single square; visually divide the area as shown into the orange dashed units and place the number of plants required. Other diagrams use two, three, four or even nine base squares; divide the area according to the orange dashed lines, and place a seedling at the center of each area or as shown in the diagram.

For best results, make small, separated plantings of each vegetable rather than a single, massed planting. (Dividing your plantings like this helps reduce disease or pest damage.)

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Grid A: Broccoli, cauliflower and broccoflower, collards, corn (late), horseradish, husk tomato and tomatillo, tomato (vine), melon (summer), melon (winter), peanut, popcorn, potato, strawberry, sunflower, sweet potato and yam

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Grid B: Amaranth, beans (dried, fava and lima [pole]), endive and escarole, lettuce (butterhead, celtuce, crisphead, leaf and romaine), rutabaga, shallot, spinach (New Zealand) and Swiss chard

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Grid C: Beet, salsify and spinach

Facts

Before setting your plot for planting, your soil should be thoroughly loosened, with all amendments and fertilizers already added.
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With surprisingly little space, you can have something to eat out of your garden every month of the year.
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Tips

New to food gardening? Check out Learn2Grow’s 4 Step Food Garden program, and learn the easy steps to growing a bountiful harvest this season.
After your early lettuce, beet, carrot and cabbage crops are harvested in spring, beans, tomatoes and other summer crops can be grown in their place.

Come to The Garden Party and share your food garden accomplishments with the rest of the Learn2Grow community! Join the 4 Step Food Garden Group and/or the Growing, Grilling and Eating Group and post some pictures of your productive garden, create a blog, share a recipe or ask our experts or other home gardeners for any help you may need along your growing way!

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