Vegetable Spacings – For Efficient Use of Space and Long-Term Growth

Every vegetable needs a different amount of space to grow successfully and healthily. In this short, I show you how correct spacing improves plant health and cropping over time.

From wide gaps for courgettes and sweet potatoes (70cm), to tighter spacing for salad leaves (22cm), each plant thrives best when given the room it needs. I also share tips on multisowing—where several plants grow in one spot, so spacing changes for that.

We’ve even removed lower leaves from the courgette to make better use of the soil, allowing light and air in while roots thrive beneath.

These spacing principles help your plants stay healthier for longer and make more efficient use of your garden space.

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spacing. It makes a fantastic difference to get spacings good and they’re different for every vegetable. Like corettes, which are in the ground for a long time, take a lot of space and moisture. 70 cm I’m giving them. That’s 2 feet and a third. And it looks a lot when you put these little plants in the ground, but boy do they use it all. And we’ve even taken some lower leaves off as you can see which leaves soil that looks bare between the plants but actually the roots are using it all very profitably. Whereas here the slurry obviously don’t get so big. Uh but I’m still giving them quite a decent spacing. It’s around 40 cm. That’s 16 in and it’s an equidistant spacing. So 40 cm always. Uh it’s called planting on the square. So you can see there’s a lot of beetroo plants in that uh sorry plants in that bed. And you you got choices. You you can vary these spacings a bit according to what you want. Like going closer obviously gives you smaller roots. And whereas with something like sweet potatoes here we’re on 70. So I’ll put it this way around for you. 70 cm again just over two feet similar to corettes actually. And that’s only five sweet potato plants there. So they take a lot of space although it takes them quite a long time to use it. Whereas all salad plants I put pretty close 22 cm 9 in is enough for them. And that’s about this one here. You know that a much space for lettuce and eve spinach for salad salad rocket whatever you’re growing for salad leaves they can be packed in quite tight again on the square. Whereas tall plants like these climbing beans, there’s so much leaf there, so much photosynthesis happening that they need a lot of root run. You can see there’s a nice little bolotti beans there on each plant. And it would be a mistake to cram these in close. So there’s only six plants per tepee and between each tepee is 1.2 m or 4 feet and I think I could have gone even a bit wider there. I love to put a maragold or two in the space between. Finally, we have multis sewn, which changes it a bit because you got several plants together, not plant them quite so close as you might if it were singles. And I do beetroot at 30 cm, 1 foot, four in a clump. So, actually, there’s a lot of beetroot. You could also do the same for onions and radish and turnips. Sorry, radish is half the space turnips. So, you can fit a lot of plants in. It’s really good to have these spacings in mind when you come out with your plants and it just makes the whole process go much more quickly. Efficiently.