raised bed vegetable spacing

[marysuegardens]

which spacing method do you use in your raised bed square foot spacing
or hexagonal offset spacing?

[Bren In Pots]

MarySue I've found an older vine link about Square foot gardening for you to look at until someone comes along to reply..

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...foot-gardening

[Jungle Jane]

I just had to google hexagonal offset spacing,never knew it had a name,yes I plant like this,the plants have more space/it looks better.

[marysuegardens]

here is blank diagram for 8ft x4ft hexagonal offset spacing grid. bed.

[Snoop Puss]

I arrange my plants offset too. It makes a lot of sense for saving space and for preventing the leaves of large plants like cabbages from touching each other. But I don't do square foot gardening.

[Penellype]

I plant offset too. The spacing depends on what I want to achieve, so for big onlons I will plant them further apart than for small ones. I rarely measure distances, tending to just go by how it feels or past experience. For example I have just planted 8 cauliflowers in a 3ft x 6ft raised bed. These will produce perfectly acceptable cauliflowers for my needs - I don't want them huge. I started off with 6 to a bed as all the books tell you to plant them 2ft apart, but they grew too big and some got wasted. I don't much like the rigidity of square foot gardening and I have a tendency to ignore the rule book with things like crop rotation (I don't have enough sunny places to rotate things that need full sun) . I also have a tendency to bung things in if there is a space so I can end up with a mixture of crops at somewhat strange spacing sometimes.

[marysuegardens]

both offset and square foot

[Jungle Jane]

here is blank diagram for 8ft x4ft hexagonal offset spacing grid. bed.

The diagram in your post shows about twenty five plants per sq ft,it’s too many plants. The diagram below shows how many plants of each type fit into one sq ft. I hope this helps? -

[marysuegardens]

jungle jane the diagram is correct for a 4ft wide and 8ft long
bed using 4in hexagon offset spacing. the link below
should be helpful in clearing up your confusion.

Plant Calculator
https://concalculator.com/plant-calculator/

but that only works all plant having same size and spacing

[Jungle Jane]

I just looked at the link,it’s showing over 300 plants in an 8 x 4 ft bed,I think the problem with all this is the 4 inch spacing,in real life plants are more than 4 inches away from each other,we would never plant that close.
Edit - except peas & carrots but I wouldn’t fill a whole bed like that.

[marysuegardens]

Jungle Jane offset hexagon spacing will be variable
with bigger plant you use big hexagon. i just did not
show in in my diagram.