Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
very much depends on the crops you wish to grow, as root vegetable crops like carrots or
parsnips for instance need a suitable depth of compost in order to grow adequately.
Cabbage or lettuce, zucchini or cucumber however will thrive quite well in only a few
inches of good compost as they are of course above-ground vegetables, and so do not re-
quire depth in order to grow adequately.
Eachofthefoot-squarespacesisoccupiedbyavarietyofvegetables, withthelargerplants
like potatoes and tomato for instance occupying a square all to themselves; while beets can
be grown 9 to a square and carrots can be grown 16 to each square as in the example chart
below.
The diagram above is just an example of the way you may lay out a SFG, with the taller
plants to the rear where they will not block the sunlight to the lower vegetables. The num-
ber alongside the individual plants, is the number of plants that you can grow in each indi-
vidual square.
Types of plants and the numbers that can be grown in each square will be discussed in fur-
ther chapters.
