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hexagonal planting

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

I guess some of you may be familiar with hexagonal planting; basically,
you can fit about 15% more circles into a given area if you pack them
in a hexagonal lattice instead of a square lattice.  Common sense
suggests that you might be able to pack a few more plants in that way,
too --- maybe not 15% more, but a few more.

I guess a guy named John Jeavons advocates this as part of his
"biointensive mini-farming" method, which has a lot in common with
square-foot gardening.

Laying hexagonal gardens out on square graph paper is miserable.  So
(here's why I'm posting) I made some hex graph paper that you can print
out on your own printer.  You can grab it at

	http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sw/hexpaper.pdf

Related links: 
- if you want to see what kind of stupid bugs are in the program to
  produce this grid, or maybe make a modified version (change the
  spacing of the dots, for example), the source code in Perl is at
  http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sw/hexpaper.
- I made a modified version that uses letters instead of dots; it's at
  http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sw/hextextpaper.pdf, and the program is
  at http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sw/hextextpaper.  This is more silly
  than useful.

I'm going to be starting my first triangular-foot garden in a month or
two here in Dayton, Ohio (where the growing season is from late April
to mid-October; not sure what zone I'm in); it'll be a hexagon four
feet across the corners, about 10.4 square feet, and ideally, it should
hold as many plants as a 12-square-foot square garden.  I'm planning to
use scrounged bricks and new mortar to build the wall.

"Ask not what the Internet can do for you; ask what you can do for the
Internet."

-- 
<kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
The Internet stock bubble didn't burst on 1999-11-08.  Hurrah!
<URL:http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/bubble.html>
The power didn't go out on 2000-01-01 either.  :)


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