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Choose the space, sun and crop mix that match your garden. Every plan includes the whole execution pack.

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54 plans

Continuous sowing · 4+ hours sun

4×8 spring salad bed

A salad bed with full-size lettuce and up to three successive radish batches.

Leaf lettuce · Small round radishes

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Spring starts · 6+ hours sun

4×8 salad and bush beans

Two separate 4×4 zones, with cool-season lettuce first and warm-soil beans later.

Leaf lettuce · Bush snap beans

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Spring starts · 5+ hours sun

4×8 beginner greens

Three leafy crops with different heat tolerances and harvest habits.

Leaf lettuce · Spinach · Swiss chard

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Spring starts · 6+ hours sun

4×8 compact summer bed

Tiny Tim dwarf tomatoes, bush beans and compact basil for a sunny summer start.

Tiny Tim dwarf tomato · Bush snap beans · Compact basil

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Spring starts · 5+ hours sun

4×8 root crop bed

A deep, loose root bed with short carrots, small beets and round radishes.

Short carrots · Small-root beets · Small round radishes

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No indoor seed starting · 6+ hours sun

4×8 herb kitchen bed

Separate kitchen-herb zones with purchased compact seedlings and clumps.

Compact basil · Compact parsley · Chive clumps

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No indoor seed starting · 6+ hours sun

4×8 two-crop simple bed

Two large blocks for a gardener who wants fewer crop types and no trellis.

Bush snap beans · Swiss chard

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Spring starts · 6+ hours sun

4×8 four-family rotation starter

Four numbered zones represent four botanical families for next-year planning.

Leaf lettuce · Small round radishes · Short carrots · Bush snap beans

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No indoor seed starting · 6+ hours sun

4×8 late spring starter

Purchased summer seedlings and direct-sown beans when indoor sowing is already past.

Tiny Tim dwarf tomato · Compact basil · Bush snap beans

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No indoor seed starting · 6+ hours sun

4×8 no indoor seed starting

All direct-sown crops with no trays, lamps or indoor seedling steps.

Small round radishes · Short carrots · Bush snap beans

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Spring starts · 5+ hours sun

Weekend preparation with a care handover

Group preparation and thinning on a weekend, then leave a clear moisture and harvest handover.

Swiss chard · Small-root beets

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Lower sun · 6+ hours sun

4×8 six-hour sun starter

A measured six-hour location with warm-season planting conditions shown explicitly.

Bush snap beans · Compact basil · Swiss chard

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Lower sun · 4+ hours sun

4×8 four-hour leafy plan

Cool-season leafy crops for a place with only four hours of direct sun.

Leaf lettuce · Spinach

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Spring starts · 4+ hours sun

4×8 narrow-side access review

A one-side access layout that exposes the reach problem before you plant.

Leaf lettuce · Small round radishes

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Spring starts · 5+ hours sun

Root-depth check before sowing

Probe the usable soil profile, then choose roots that fit before ordering extra fill.

Short carrots · Small-root beets

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Continuous sowing · 4+ hours sun

Small salad bed with a complete reset

Harvest one small salad crop, clear every position and reset it for fall leaves.

Leaf lettuce · Small round radishes · Arugula for young leaves

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Lower sun · 4+ hours sun

2×8 narrow planting strip

A two-foot-wide strip with every planting position close to a long edge.

Leaf lettuce · Chive clumps

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Spring starts · 5+ hours sun

A mixed bed with separate harvest decisions

Use distinct leaf-cut, root-lift and repeat-cut blocks to avoid clearing healthy plants together.

Leaf lettuce · Small-root beets · Swiss chard

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Multiple beds · 6+ hours sun

Two 2×4 beds

Two independent beds, with a path excluded from all planting and fill totals.

Leaf lettuce · Bush snap beans

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Small containers · 4+ hours sun

Three 20 L leafy containers

One leafy crop per pot with a 60 L total mix requirement.

Leaf lettuce · Chive clumps · Compact parsley

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Small containers · 6+ hours sun

Four 25 L kitchen containers

Four useful kitchen crops in individual containers and a 100 L mix order.

Compact basil · Compact parsley · Chive clumps · Swiss chard

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Small containers · 6+ hours sun

One 40 L Tiny Tim tomato pot

One purchased dwarf tomato plant in a dedicated supported pot.

Tiny Tim dwarf tomato

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Small containers · 6+ hours sun

Two 40 L beans and basil pots

Separate warm-season bean and basil containers with an 80 L fill total.

Bush snap beans · Compact basil

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Small containers · 4+ hours sun

Six 8 L herb pots

Six small pots for compact parsley plants and chive clumps.

Chive clumps · Compact parsley

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Lower sun · 4+ hours sun

Four-hour balcony greens

Three cool-season pots that avoid fruiting crops at low light.

Leaf lettuce · Spinach

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Use what you own · 4+ hours sun

Containers with mix already owned

Reuse 40 L of suitable potting mix before ordering bags for a 60 L setup.

Leaf lettuce · Compact parsley · Chive clumps

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Small containers · 6+ hours sun

Three pots with no trellis

Bush beans, round radishes and chives without climbing crops or tall structures.

Bush snap beans · Small round radishes · Chive clumps

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Continuous sowing · 6+ hours sun

Salad to beans succession

One full bed used twice, with clearing and warm-soil checks between phases.

Leaf lettuce · Bush snap beans

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Continuous sowing · 6+ hours sun

Radishes to summer herbs

Quick roots first, compact nursery basil second in the same marked space.

Small round radishes · Compact basil

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Fall planting · 4+ hours sun

Fall greens from first frost

Fall sowing windows calculated backward from your first frost date.

Leaf lettuce · Spinach · Small round radishes

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Spring starts · 6+ hours sun

Spring peas with an open picking aisle

Build a supported cool-season pea strip with a separate quick-root block.

Compact sugar snap peas · Small round radishes

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Spring starts · 4+ hours sun

Spring greens with a thinning check

Keep long-lived kale separate from whole-head pak choi and count survivors before buying replacements.

Compact kale · Compact pak choi

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Fall planting · 5+ hours sun

Fall roots before the bed closes

Work backward from fall frost and reserve time to sample, lift and clear three root crops.

Short carrots · Small-root turnips · Small-root beets

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Fall planting · 4+ hours sun

Fall kale with repeat leaf harvests

Plan a persistent kale block and a quick young-leaf block without clearing both at once.

Compact kale · Arugula for young leaves

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Fall planting · 4+ hours sun

Fall pak choi with a whole-head finish

Schedule one harvest-and-clear decision for pak choi heads and a separate sample-root check.

Compact pak choi · Small round radishes

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Fall planting · 6+ hours sun

Fall cilantro after summer bolting

Restart a cool-season leaf herb after a bolted summer crop, with separate scallion timing.

Cilantro for leaves · Bunching onions

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Continuous sowing · 6+ hours sun

One bed, three seasonal plantings

Use one space for spring radishes, summer bush beans and fall spinach.

Small round radishes · Bush snap beans · Spinach

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Continuous sowing · 6+ hours sun

Spring peas to fall kale

Remove spent pea vines and supports before opening the same bed for fall kale.

Compact sugar snap peas · Compact kale

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Continuous sowing · 5+ hours sun

Turnips to summer chard

Finish a root crop completely before replacing it with repeat-cut leaves.

Small-root turnips · Swiss chard

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Lower sun · 4+ hours sun

Four-hour herb growth trial

Check whether a measured four-hour site supports useful herb leaves before expanding.

Compact parsley · Cilantro for leaves · Chive clumps

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Lower sun · 4+ hours sun

Spring and fall leaves under seasonal shade

Plan cool-season leaf crops around a summer shade or heat interruption.

Leaf lettuce · Arugula for young leaves

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Multiple beds · 6+ hours sun

Two beds with separate changeovers

Keep one leafy bed available while the other changes from roots to beans.

Small round radishes · Leaf lettuce · Bush snap beans · Spinach

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Multiple beds · 6+ hours sun

Three beds with a crop-family ledger

Keep three botanical families in separate beds and retain a map for next-season choices.

Bunching onions · Small-root beets · Compact kale

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Multiple beds · 6+ hours sun

Two beds with different crop finish dates

Keep the long tomato harvest in one bed while a second bed changes to fall greens.

Tiny Tim dwarf tomato · Small round radishes · Compact pak choi

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Small containers · 6+ hours sun

One pepper pot from seed or seedling

Choose an indoor seed start or an existing nursery plant, then follow the matching outdoor and fruit-harvest calendar.

Compact sweet pepper

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Small containers · 6+ hours sun

A bush cucumber pot with a flowering check

Direct sow a warm-soil cucumber, then use its pollination label to decide when covers must come off.

Compact bush cucumber

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Small containers · 5+ hours sun

Three small pots with sample-root checks

Thin separate root crops and sample each pot before deciding when to clear it.

Small round radishes · Small-root beets · Small-root turnips

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No indoor seed starting · 6+ hours sun

Outdoor seed only: peas then beans

Run cool-season peas and a later bean crop with seed sown only in its final bed.

Compact sugar snap peas · Bush snap beans

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No indoor seed starting · 6+ hours sun

A nursery-only summer planting

Buy two suitable compact fruiting crops and coordinate their different outdoor readiness windows.

Tiny Tim dwarf tomato · Compact sweet pepper

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No indoor seed starting · 5+ hours sun

Direct-sown fall restart after missed spring

Start a new cool-season plan from seed when the spring planting window has already passed.

Arugula for young leaves · Small-root turnips · Compact pak choi

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Use what you own · 6+ hours sun

Use the seed packets you already have

Count usable seed for three sowing methods before calculating the remaining order.

Small round radishes · Short carrots · Bush snap beans

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Use what you own · 6+ hours sun

Place the seedlings you already own

Reserve space for two existing compact nursery plants and buy only the missing plants and mix.

Tiny Tim dwarf tomato · Compact sweet pepper

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Use what you own · 4+ hours sun

One seed stock shared across two beds

Deduct one radish seed stock once across two beds and two batches in each bed.

Small round radishes

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Use what you own · 6+ hours sun

Inventory across a spring-to-fall relay

Reserve existing seeds and reusable labels across three crops in the same bed.

Small round radishes · Bush snap beans · Spinach

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