Most beginners lose plants to wrong spacing and bad combinations. This plan already handles both.

Zone 8b Fall Sampler

4 × 4 ft Square Foot Grid 121 plants · 8 varieties ~$78 of groceries 24 views

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What this plan does

Improves soil health so plants feed each other
Square foot spacing calculated for a 4×4 ft bed — no overcrowding, no guessing

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Bed Layout

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North

West

	1	2	3	4
1	Mustard Greens ×9	Mustard Greens ×9	Mustard Greens ×9	🫛 Peas ×8
2	Cabbage	Broccoli Rabe ×4	Broccoli Rabe ×4	Cabbage
3	🥬 Lettuce ×4	🥬 Lettuce ×4	Beet ×9	Beet ×9
4	Spinach ×9	🥕 Carrot ×16	🥕 Carrot ×16	Spinach ×9

East

South

Numbers indicate feet

Plants in This Bed

Mustard Greens

27 plants

Broccoli Rabe

8 plants

Cabbage

2 plants

Beet

18 plants

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Lettuce

8 plants

Spinach

18 plants

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Peas

8 plants

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Carrot

32 plants

Why this works

Each plant earns its place in this bed

Mustard Greens — Mustard is a fast-growing cool-season crop prized both for its pungent leaves and its seeds, which are the basis of mustard condiment and mustard oil.

Broccoli Rabe — Broccoli rabe (also called rapini) is a fast-growing cool-season vegetable prized in Italian cuisine for its pleasantly bitter flavour.

Cabbage — Cabbage is a nutritious garden vegetable that provides fresh produce for your kitchen.

Beet — Beet is a nutritious garden vegetable that provides fresh produce for your kitchen.

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Lettuce — Fast-growing, versatile salad green that thrives in cool weather.

Spinach — Nutrient-dense leafy green perfect for salads, cooking, and smoothies.

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Peas — Peas is a nutritious garden vegetable that provides fresh produce for your kitchen.

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Carrot — Crisp, sweet root vegetables packed with vitamins and beta-carotene.

How they help each other

✓ Beet + Broccoli Rabe — Compatible root crop; does not compete with brassica above ground
✓ Beet + Cabbage — Brassica family friend
✓ Beet + Lettuce — Compatible growth
✓ Beet + Mustard Greens — Grow well together; different root zones
✓ Cabbage + Lettuce — Compatible
✓ Carrot + Lettuce — Efficient space usage
✓ Peas + Cabbage — Nitrogen fixation
✓ Peas + Carrot — Nitrogen benefits carrots
✓ Peas + Mustard Greens — Fix nitrogen, complementary growth
✓ Spinach + Cabbage — Similar family
✓ Spinach + Lettuce — Similar conditions
✓ Spinach + Mustard Greens — Good companion, similar cool-season requirements
✓ Spinach + Peas — Nitrogen benefits spinach

In Edenvatika, square foot spacing is automatic and the planner highlights good companions and warns you about bad ones as you build — so you get it right before anything goes in the ground.

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