Square Foot Gardening: A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work
explains how to plant items much closer together, often growing items vertically.
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
teaches the idea that some plants thrive planted with specific others for reasons of pest control and soil or growing conditions.
The first bed is 4' X 26'.
I prepped the bed at the beginning of March. First my hubby and son turned the garden over with shovels and then we charged the beds. I take this term from the book Super Nutrition Gardening
for when I apply cottonseed meal and mushroom compost to my garden. Now we wait...about 3 to 4 weeks.