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

My 4x8 Shade Raised Bed Garden

4 × 8 ft Square Foot Grid 32 plants · 7 varieties 3 views

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What this plan does

Square foot spacing calculated for a 4×8 ft bed — no overcrowding, no guessing

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Bed Layout

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North

West

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1	🥦 Broccoli Rabe ×4	🥦 Broccoli Rabe ×4	🥬 Endive ×3	🥬 Endive ×3
2	🫚 Ginger	🫚 Turmeric ×2	🫚 Turmeric ×2	🫚 Ginger
3	🫚 Ginger	🫚 Turmeric ×2	🫚 Turmeric ×2	🫚 Ginger
4	🫚 Ginger	🫚 Turmeric ×2	🫚 Turmeric ×2	🫚 Ginger
5	🫚 Turmeric ×2	🥬 Spinach ×9	🥬 Spinach ×9	🫚 Turmeric ×2
6	🥬 Spinach ×9	🥬 Lettuce ×4	🥬 Lettuce ×4	🥬 Spinach ×9
7	🥬 Spinach ×9	🥬 Lettuce ×4	🥬 Lettuce ×4	🥬 Spinach ×9
8	Coriander ×9	Coriander ×9	Coriander ×9	Coriander ×9

East

South

Numbers indicate feet

Plants in This Bed

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Broccoli Rabe

8 plants

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Endive

6 plants

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Ginger

6 plants

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Turmeric

16 plants

Coriander

36 plants

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Lettuce

16 plants

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Spinach

54 plants

Why this works

Each plant earns its place in this bed

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

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Endive — Endive is a cool-season chicory grown for its slightly bitter, crisp leaves used in salads and braised dishes.

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Ginger — Ginger is a tropical rhizome with spicy, aromatic roots used in cooking and tea.

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Turmeric — Turmeric is a tropical rhizomatous herb grown for its brilliant golden-orange underground rhizomes, the source of the spice and the powerful anti-inflammatory compound curcumin.

Coriander — Coriander, also known as Dhaniya or Cilantro, is an essential herb in Indian cooking.

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

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

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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