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Share your SFG plans!
I am going to try and copy/paste from Excel, and see if it will let me post my plans. If it doesn't work, I will just delete in a few minutes.
Garden is 4 ft by 8 ft, each square is divided up on this plan to show how many plants per foot. I have another 4 by 8 planned with tomatoes, basil, and lettuce.
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Cucumbers | Cucumbers | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Squash | Squash | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||
| Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Cucumbers | Cucumbers | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Red Bell Pepper | Yellow Bell Pepper | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eggplant | Eggplant | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||
| Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Red Bell Pepper | Yellow Bell Pepper | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||
| Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Cucumbers | Cucumbers | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Squash | Squash | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||
| Beans | Beans | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strawberries | Strawberries | Beans | Beans | Cucumbers | Cucumbers | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Snap Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | Eng Peas | ||||||||||||||||||
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Re: Share your SFG plans!
I don't SFG. But here's my plans as I last noted at work. They may have changed a bit though...
East Bed:
Tomato - Early Girl, Jet Star, Rose, Opalka
Tomatillo - Toma Verde
Red Onion - Burgermaster
Yellow Onion - Copra
Leek - American Flag
Sweet Peppers - Blushing Beauty (yellow), King of the North (green/red), Valencia (orange), Sweet Chocolate (brown)
Poblano - Tiburon
Jalapeno - Mucho Nacho
Habanero - Orange
Eggplant - Parks Whopper Hybrid
Middle Bed:
Beans - Cherokee Trail of Tears (trellising)
Cucumber - Double Yield, Japanese Climbing
Squash - Enterprise (yellow), Black Beauty (zukes), Spineless Beauty (zukes), Pennsylvania Dutch Crookneck
Corn - Reid's Yellow Dent
Collards - Champion
Kale - Winterbor
Radish - Early Scarlet Globe
Lettuce - Bistro Salad Blend
Carrot - Royal Chantenay
Garlic - softneck transplants. Fall planting TBA
West Bed:
Beans - Derby Bush, Empress, Royalty Purple Pod, Dragon's Tongue, Calypso, Ireland Creek Annie
Peas - Dwarf Grey Sugar, Green Arrow
Swiss Chard - Five Color Silverbeet
Spinach - Space
Carrots - St. Valery
Radish - Early Scarlet Globe
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I have early spring beds in right now.
32 potatoes, 24 onion, 8 garlic, 8 lettuce, 8 sugar snap peas, 8 carrots, 8 beets.
I've got my list of plants and I've got 1 of 3 beds figured out (though, based on thepumpkin/squash post below, I am now converting 1 ground cherry square to another pumpkin square). See it here. I am still working out the other two beds.
In the ground now is broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, a couple types of lettuce, swiss chard, collard greens, beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic, strawberries, snap peas, and english peas.
Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, beans, zucchini, yellow squash, and a bunch of herbs will be in by the end of the month, assuming it warms up like normal.
I tend to mix things around in my beds rather than have patches. That way if bugs start eating something up, the plants in other beds stand a chance. I think it makes it fun looking too.
I would put your beans on the edge because they'll want to climb something. I'd do the West or North end so they don't shade everything. Your cukes will probably need to climb in a SFG too.
I've never done strawberries in a SFG before, but I've heard they take a couple of years to get established. Not sure how well they'll work. They also finish fruiting really early in the year. Also, with 4x8, can you reach the middle?
In our big garden we're doing tomatoes, some squash varities and mellons, in addition to some of the stuff that is perennial there (cillantro, rhubarb, swiss chard, asparagus.) Probably throw in some carrots, beets, etc too.
SFG something like this (top is north, right is East)
peas beans beans beans (Beans are purple pole and green pole)
peas carrots beats spinach
peas basil lettuce lettuce