Draw your garden. We'll tell you when to plant it.
Lay out a raised bed square by square, and every plant you drop in comes with its spacing, its sowing dates for your zip code, and a warning if you've just put it next to something it hates.
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- Drop beans next to onions and it says so, before you've committed. Basil next to tomatoes and it tells you that's a good idea, and why.
- Say you want four tomatoes, a dozen carrots and some basil, and it lays the bed out for you. Tall things go on the north edge so they don't shade everything else, and it tells you what wouldn't fit.
- Then it turns the picture into dates. Start these indoors the week of March 14. Move them out May 9. Direct-sow those now. All worked back from your zone's frost dates.
- The plan stays yours. It lives in your browser, not on our server. Print it, download it, or copy a link that carries the whole layout to whoever's helping you dig.
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Or start from one that's already done
Four beds laid out and spaced, ready to open and change however you like.
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Planting Calendar
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Plant Profiles
342 crops and flowers: what goes wrong with each one, how far apart to put them, and which varieties are worth the seed money.
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