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

🌱 SPRING Shade Garden

4 × 8 ft Square Foot Grid 204 plants · 10 varieties 6 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

	1	2	3	4
1	🌸 Foxglove	🌸 Foxglove	🌸 Foxglove	🌸 Foxglove
2	Spinach ×9	Spinach ×9	🥗 Arugula ×9	🥗 Arugula ×9
3	Bok Choy ×4	Bok Choy ×4	🥬 Lettuce ×4	🥬 Lettuce ×4
4	🥬 Lettuce ×4	🥬 Lettuce ×4	Bok Choy ×4	Bok Choy ×4
5	Coriander ×4	🌿 Parsley ×4	🌿 Chervil ×4	Coriander ×4
6	🌿 Parsley ×4	🌿 Chervil ×4	🌿 Parsley ×4	🌿 Chervil ×4
7	🌸 Pansy ×9	🌸 Pansy ×9	🌸 Pansy ×9	🌸 Pansy ×9
8	🌸 Sweet Alyssum ×16	🌸 Sweet Alyssum ×16	🌸 Sweet Alyssum ×16	🌸 Sweet Alyssum ×16

East

South

Numbers indicate feet

Plants in This Bed

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Foxglove

4 plants

Spinach

18 plants

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Arugula

18 plants

Bok Choy

16 plants

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Lettuce

16 plants

Coriander

8 plants

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Parsley

12 plants

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Chervil

12 plants

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Pansy

36 plants

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Sweet Alyssum

64 plants

Why this works

Each plant earns its place in this bed

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Foxglove — Stately spires of tubular bells; biennial/short-lived perennial that self-sows.

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

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Arugula — Arugula is a fast-growing leafy green with a distinctive peppery flavor.

Bok Choy — Bok choy is a fast-growing Asian green with crisp white stems and dark green leaves.

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

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

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Parsley — Parsley is a versatile herb perfect for culinary use, adding fresh flavor to many dishes.

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Chervil — Chervil is a delicate cool-season herb with a subtle anise-parsley flavour, an essential ingredient in classic French fines herbes.

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Pansy — Pansies are cheerful cool-season flowers with "faces" in every color.

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Sweet Alyssum — Sweet alyssum forms low mounds of tiny fragrant flowers in white, pink, or purple.

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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