What to plant.. Help!

[Bryan84]

Hello,

I'm looking to plant vegetables in my Garden box. For vegetables I will use one of my two 4x10 boxes. Would this be big enough to plant a few tomato plants, radishes, peppers, and green onions? I attached a picture of the boxes for a better visual.
Thanks for the help!

Bryan

 

[RamblingChicken]

If I were planting that box I'd plant:

- Two tomatoes, giving each one 4 X 4.
- Three peppers sharing the remaining 2 X 4.
- Green onions around the edges.
- Radishes in the blank spaces until the tomatoes and peppers sized up.

Actually, I'd plant lettuce in the blank spaces, but that wasn't in your list.

In theory, tomatoes can be as close as 2 X 2 and peppers as close as 1X1. But I no longer do intensive planting.

 

[Bryan84]

Thank you for the advice!

 

[Vernon]

I would put Tomatoes and Peppers in the left box and radishes and onion in right box. Just my 2 cents. Oh I just reread it you only want to use one box If you can build a third box it would give you so much more GOOD FOOD

 

[Greenhorn]

My tomatoes usually end up about 4'x4' easy and it is a bit of a pain if they grow together and get dense. I would plant 2 tomatoes about 3 feet from each end edge and put the other stuff in the middle. Unless you have promised a lot of people tomatoes 2 should provide plenty for you and some for sharing. Also you don't mention where the sun is in relationship to the planter layout. Will the sunlight sweep across the width or narrow? Obliviously width would be optimal, you don't want to plant anything where it will end up shaded by something larger.

Really nice beds, be sure and get some amendment/compost in there and on there.

 

[Beth_B]

Good advice so far but I'll reiterate again what others have said about tomatoes...depending on the type they can take up an enormous amount of room! I have some varieties that grow about six feet high (staked) and easily spread 4 feet.

 

[Autumn_Hearthwitch]

Yes, agreed. I'd say your biggest concern would be the tomatoes. Those can grow quite high and will spread, depending on the type of course. It's still doable though and I'd do it the same way as @RamblingChicken advised. Honestly I have a very small greenhouse and I'm planting carrots, tomatoes, peas and green onions. We'll see how my careful planning paid off when it starts growing. Hopefully I'll have left enough space for the tomatoes. The greenhouse is mostly for the bunnies, I've seen one roaming around and I would hate for it to get into my vegetables.

 

[headfullofbees]

Grow bush tomatoes and stagger them.