Square Foot Gardening: How to Plant in the Grid

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So now that you are beginning to understand how wonderful Square Foot Gardening can be for your garden. You are probably like me thinking....Ok so now I have to figure out how many plants go into each grid.

So I searched and searched but I found it out.  So rather than making you have to do all the work, that I have already done. I am going to share it with you.  Now mind you these are only the plants that I am going to have in my garden.  I do have the complete list and if you are interested in another plant that I don't have listed please leave me a comment and I will get right back to you.

• BEANS-BUSH: 9 PLANTS ( 3 ROWS OF 3)

• BROCCOLI: 1 PLANT PER 1 SQUARE

• CARROT: 16 PLANTS (4 ROWS OF 4 )

• CAULIFLOWER: 1 PLANT PER 1 SQUARE

• CORN: 4 PLANTS PER SQUARE

• CUCUMBERS: 2 PLANTS PER SQUARE

• LETTUCE: 4 PLANTS PER SQUARE

• ONION: 16 PLANTS (4 ROWS OF )

• PEPPER: 1 PLANT PER SQUARE

• SPINACH: 9 PLANTS (3 ROWS OF 3)

• SUMMER SQUASH: 1 PLANT PER SQUARE

•  TOMATO: 1 PLANT PER SQUARE 

Something that I have also found out is that is very recommended to use the most of the vertical space in your garden.  I am intending to try and train the cucumbers to grow vertically by providing them with trellised support.  I have chosen to use bush beans but if you are using a vine bean or peas you can take advantage of the vertical space too. Here is a nice example of what I am talking about.

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