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Square foot garden planner

Plant your bed square by square. The planner counts the plants in every square, flags neighbours that grow poorly together and gives planting months for your zone. Free, and no account needed to plan.

Length
4 ft
Width
4 ft

Planting Lettuce: tap or drag across squares. 4 plants per square

NNorth side · tall crops here4 ft
4 ft

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How many plants per square foot

How many of each crop fit one 1 ft square at square-foot spacing. Where sources differ, the range is shown with the crop.

1 per 2 squares

1 per square

2 per square

  • Cucumberon a trellis · without a trellis: 1

4 per square

8 per square

  • Peason a trellis · sources say 8⁠–⁠9
  • Snow Peason a trellis · sources say 8⁠–⁠9
  • Sugar Snap Peason a trellis · sources say 8⁠–⁠9

9 per square

16 per square

How square foot gardening works

  1. 1

    Grid the bed into 1 ft squares

    A 4 × 4 ft bed holds 16 squares. Mark them with string or slats so each square is planted on its own.

  2. 2

    Plant by count, not by row

    Each crop gets a set number per square: 1 for big plants like tomatoes and peppers, 4 for lettuce, 9 for spinach and beets, 16 for carrots and radishes.

  3. 3

    Grow climbers up

    Peas, pole beans, cucumbers and small melons go on a trellis on the side where they shade nothing else, so they take less ground.

  4. 4

    Replant square by square

    When a square is harvested, add compost and plant the next crop there, so the bed keeps producing all season.

Where the counts come from

Each count is the value most of these sources give; where they disagree, the range is shown with the crop.

22 sources

Keep exploring

Planting guide

What to grow, how far to space it, and when to start every crop.

Garden calendar

Month-by-month sowing and harvest windows for your climate.

Companion planting

Which plants thrive side by side — and which to keep apart.

Hardiness zones

Find your zone and the plants that overwinter where you garden.

Plan it this winter.
Plant it on time.

Draw next season's beds now — every sowing date lands on your calendar, with a reminder before each one. Free to start.

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