Planning

It was slow at the reference desk tonight... really slow.  So, armed with the spreadsheet of what I want to grow next year and how much space each plant takes in a deep bed (this book is an awesome resource), I popped open Publisher and set up a grid... and then I made a bunch of pseudo-hexes because the default hexagon shape isn't regular.  Each blue square is 12"x12".

The preliminary result:

There are a few things (cucumbers, melons, zucchini) that I still need to fit in, although I may do the cucumbers along the back fence after I rip out all the vines back there that are a pain to prune.  I bought Anne Arundel muskmelon seeds from the Monticello site today, so I want to find room to fit them in, as well.

I thought initially I was going to have to dig another bed or two, and then I realized that I had triangles of space between each hex of the larger plants in which some things could grow before some of the other plants got too big.  If anything, I might skip the celery, redistribute the bush beans, and pop a melon or squash plant up in that corner.

(Look, Dad, I left enough room between corn plants this time!  Now I just need to figure out how to keep the squirrels off it...)

I really like fresh carrots.