How many cucumbers in a square foot garden

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Square Foot Gardening as developed by Mel Bartholomew. October Avatar: Fall Gardening!! Happy Gardening in !!! Latest topics. Search SFG Forum. I'm planting Cucumbers for the first time this year in my SFG, but I don't know how many to plant per sf. Can someone please clue me in? I plant to let them vine up a nylon trellis. The type I bought is called "Muncher". Like Dislike. I got the Muncher ones too! Don't they look cute? According to my package, it says to thin to 12". Which means you can plant one per square foot.

Hope this helps! According to the SFG book, you plant two per square. I'm growing Marketmore, Sumter, and Muncher this year so I'll have large, medium and small.

All 2 plants per square. Thanks for the clarification. I have the book, but I tend to go by what it says on the package because the book doesn't take every variety into account. Is that not the right way to do it? Should I be ignoring the recommendation on the package and just use the spacing given by Mel in the book? By and large, I go by Mel's book. Remember, this is not row gardening which is what the seed packets are expecting you to be doing. As veteran gardeners know well, and those yet to plant their first seed will soon find out, different plants and vegetables require varying amounts of space to thrive.

While not an exact science, a degree of precision during planting time will pay dividends come harvest. Traditionally, with square foot gardening a gardener will measure and stake out square foot planting sections by making a grid out of a variety of instruments such as string or thin wood slats.

Using the square foot gardening grid sections a gardener plants by area instead of rows, reference our related article noted above to grow in a condensed space. Square foot gardening grid sections plus watering, a simple and quick solution for a square foot garden set up.

Most gardeners will be surprised at the amount of produce that can be gleaned from even a small raised garden bed using the square foot gardening method. Trellises can be used to maximize the amount of plants per square foot and ultimately increase the yield of your raised garden bed. In square foot gardening, you can comfortably grow one tomato plant per grid square. A delicious addition to any garden salad, tomatoes are one of our favorite plants to grow. Square foot gardening tomatoes have a surprisingly high yield; a single healthy plant can provide approximately 20 pounds of produce.

The Brandywine and Early Girl varieties are excellent tomatoes for square foot gardening as they grow well vertically and require little square footage. Using square foot gardening, you can comfortably grow two cucumber plants per square foot.

Another great plant for square foot gardening is the cucumber. I think I'll base it off of how much seed I have left. If I have enough to save for next year, then I will plant some more. Even 1 per square gets kinda rough if the plant takes off though. With multiples in a sqaure, finding yr cukes is gonna be like an Easter-egg hunt though This is my first year using a trelis and cukes.

Is two cukes per square to many???? Zone 6a. The keeping of bees, for instance. Het Camp My trellis is of 7x7 netting and still was a little concerned about how containable they are on a trellis?

So my theory was train each cuke up a 7x7, which is one per plant, and I figured that 2 plants are the max per square. Sounds like I still am not grasping something simple I can't help but keep coming back to look at camps cucumber forest.

RoOsTeR wrote: I can't help but keep coming back to look at camps cucumber forest. Mel suggests 2 per square but if you can do more better, than let me know how it goes. I have only two per square and will increase them next year if necessary. I like how some have pruned the bottom part of the plant to perhaps get better ventilation and maybe keep bugs down. People always thinking I do 2 per square, and that covers three of us with pickles, seedless cukes and the third variety that was found in the seed box.