Boost your garden's productivity with intensive cropping, which means that you space two or three plants close together in a bed about 4 feet wide (aka a wide row).
Boost your garden's productivity with intensive cropping, which means that you space two or three plants close together in a bed about 4 feet wide (aka a wide row). Seeds are sown or transplants are placed so that their leaves will barely touch at maturity. This approach, which uses almost every square inch of the prepared soil, works well for most types of vegetables, excluding the ones that vine such as cucumbers. The downside of this method is that you have to weed by hand because the plants grow so close together.