We hope you enjoyed our first article Plant Spacing Chart for Veggies. As promised, this is the follow up with plant spacing info for square foot gardening.
Square foot gardening allows you to plant much closer. In order to make growing a garden easier, we have put together a plant spacing chart to help you.
| Plant Variety | Plants per Square |
| Arugula | 4 |
| Basil | 4 |
| Bean-Bush | 1-4 |
| Bean-Pole | 1-4 |
| Beets | 9 |
| Broccoli |
1 (18" spacing is best) |
| Brussels Sprouts | 1 |
| Cabbage | 1 |
| Chinese Cabbage | 9 |
| Carrots | 16 |
| Cauliflower | 1 (18" spacing is best) |
| Corn | 4 |
| Cucumber | 2 |
| Eggplant | 1 |
| Greens-baby harvest | 16 |
| Greens-mature harvest | 4-8 |
| 1 | |
| Kohlrabi | 4 |
| Leeks | 4-8 |
| Lettuce-heading | 1-4 |
| Lettuce-loose leaf | 4 |
| Okra | 1 |
| Onion | 4 |
| Parsnips | 16 |
| Peas | 1 |
| Peppers | 1 |
| Pigeon Peas | 1 |
| Pumpkin | 1 |
| Radicchio | 2-4 |
| Radish | 16 |
| Rhubarb | 1 |
| Rutabaga | 4 |
| Shallots | 4 |
| Spinach | 9 |
| Squash-summer | 1 |
| Squash-winter | 1 |
| Sweet Potato | 1 |
| Swiss Chard | 4 |
| Tomatillo | 1 |
| Tomatoes | 1 |
| Turnips | 9 |
| HERBS: | |
| BASIL | 4 |
| CALENDULA | 1-4 |
| CHIVES | 9 |
| CILANTRO | 9 |
| DILL | 1 |
| FENNEL | 4 |
| OREGANO | 1 |
| PARSLEY | 1 |
| ROSEMARY | 1 |
| SAGE | 1 |
| TARRAGON | 1 |
| THYME | 4 |
| FRUIT | |
| Garden Huckleberry | 1 |
| Melon | 1 (18"-24" spacing is best) |
| Watermelon | 1 (18"-24" spacing is best) |
Proper plant spacing can help reduce plant disease and maintain healthy plant.
Using this chart, it's easy enough to interplant Companion Plants in your garden. If you're wondering what to plant and when to plant in your area, check out our 2018 Planting Guide for the US. We added a few new regions this year.
For additional planting info we have an entire page GROWING TIPS & VIDEOS to help you grow a healthy, successful garden
I hope you have enjoyed another educational article. If you have additional questions, please leave a comment below or send an email to mary@marysheirloomseeds.com
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8 comments
This is so helpful! Thank you!
Hi Mary
So excited that I found your website. I was so clueless to trying to go grow my garden but you are making it so easy.
Thanks
I dint explain myself good I have a nice vegetable garden in the 12/2 space I want plant flower that come up every year and bloom all summer
Just to confirm Mary, 4 corn plants per square foot, and 1 tomato plant? That seems awfully dense spacing for both?
I just built 3 raised beds from cedar fencing that measures 3′ × 6′ and 16" high. They all have dirt, peat moss, leaves, sticks and hay rotting for spring. Threw in some worms for good measure and I turn the soil every other week.
We live just south of Tulsa, when should we start planting seedlings in the house and when do we put them in the beds? This will be our first year with these beds gardens. Before we just used a big bag of soil and planted directly in the bags!
Thank you for this helpful chart! I’m getting ready to plant some small raised beds and this article, plus many others you’ve written are going to be of great benefit to me.
Hi Bosilka! Each seed variety listed on our website includes the quantity of seeds in the pack. For planting and spacinf we offer an entire page of info here:
https://www.marysheirloomseeds.com/pages/growing-tips-videos
I do gardening in Europe Croatia, by seeds in U S. Would like to try you seeds . Like to know how many seeds in a pack or the area to be spread on. Thank you.