Snacking Garden
A 6×4 graze-as-you-go bed: cherry and grape tomatoes, snap peas, strawberries, and mini cucumbers — nothing needs a kitchen.
About This Template
This bed is designed to be eaten standing up. Every crop tastes best seconds after picking and needs no preparation: cherry, grape, and yellow pear tomatoes along the north edge, a curtain of sugar snap peas between them, and a snacking pepper on the corner with basil below it. The heart of the garden is a double row of strawberries — six everbearing plants that fruit in waves from June to October — backed by alpine strawberries that produce tiny, intensely aromatic berries all season in partial shade. A short row of finger-size carrots and a lemon cucumber round out the graze. Plant it along a path or beside the terrace, where passing traffic guarantees quality control.
Benefits
- 1Everything is eaten straight off the plant — zero kitchen time
- 2Everbearing strawberries fruit in waves from early summer to frost
- 3Three tomato shapes and colors keep snacking interesting
- 4Alpine strawberries produce continuously even in light shade
- 5Grazing encourages daily visits — problems get spotted early
Growing Tips
- 1Plant it where people walk past; a snacking garden off the path goes unpicked
- 2Pick snap peas at finger length, before the pods get stringy
- 3Trim strawberry runners weekly so plants put energy into fruit
- 4Shishito peppers are mild — but about one in ten has a surprise
Included Plants (10)
Cherry Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme
Spacing: 45 cm · 18 in
Grape Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Spacing: 45 cm · 18 in
Sugar Snap Peas×6
Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon
Spacing: 8 cm · 3 in
Yellow Pear Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Spacing: 60 cm · 24 in
Shishito Pepper
Capsicum annuum
Spacing: 40 cm · 16 in
Basil
Ocimum basilicum
Spacing: 25 cm · 10 in
Strawberry×6
Fragaria x ananassa
Spacing: 30 cm · 12 in
Alpine Strawberry×3
Fragaria vesca
Spacing: 25 cm · 10 in
Carrot×6
Daucus carota subsp. sativus
Spacing: 8 cm · 3 in
Marigold
Tagetes patula
Spacing: 25 cm · 10 in
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