Garden Layout Plans
6 complete bed plans, each with spacing worked out at square-foot density, every neighbouring pair checked against the companion records, planting dates derived from frost data, and a soil and supply list. Start from one rather than from an empty bed.
The Beginner 4×8 Bed
8 × 4 ftThe standard first raised bed: eight crops that are hard to kill, spaced properly, with nothing planted next to something it fights with.
8 crops · 32 cu ft of soil · full sun · Easy
The Cut-and-Come-Again Salad Bed
4 × 4 ftA 4×4 bed of fast greens and roots that you harvest continuously rather than all at once. Ready in six weeks, productive for months.
7 crops · 16 cu ft of soil · partial sun · Easy
Three Sisters
4 × 4 ftCorn, beans and squash grown together — the one traditional polyculture with measured evidence that it out-produces the same area grown separately.
3 crops · 16 cu ft of soil · full sun · Moderate
The Salsa Bed
6 × 4 ftEverything for a bowl of salsa in one 4×6 bed: tomatoes, peppers, onions and cilantro, timed so they are ready together.
5 crops · 24 cu ft of soil · full sun · Moderate
The Insectary Strip
6 × 4 ftA 4×6 border of flowering plants chosen for the evidence behind them — sweet alyssum for hoverflies, borage for pollination, calendula and dill for predatory wasps.
6 crops · 24 cu ft of soil · full sun · Easy
The Partial Shade Bed
4 × 4 ftFor the bed that only gets three to five hours of sun. Leafy crops and roots that genuinely prefer it, rather than fruiting crops that will merely survive.
7 crops · 16 cu ft of soil · partial sun · Easy
Or build your own
The garden planner starts from an empty bed of any size and checks your arrangement square by square as you build it — the same check these plans passed.