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Re: Bush Snap Beans One person Sq Ft

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1.  I only have about 32 sq ft!  4x8'.  
2.  That seems like a huge amount of beans for one person!!!!

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:16:47 -0700, you wrote:

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>On page 118 of John Jeavons' book, "How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits,
>Nuts, Berries, Grains and other Crops on Less Land Than You can Imagine"
>(Hey, that really is the title of the book), there is a 100 sqft
>one-person, mini-garden plan.  He recommends planting 135 bush green
>bean seeds in a 10 sqft area the first year, then enlarging the garden
>and planting 188 seeds in 14 sqft the second year.  Sounds like a lot of
>beans for one person.  Elsewhere in the book, he recommends spacing the
>plants at 6 inches.  The math for seeds at 6 inches in 10 sqft only
>works out to 40 seeds with a sqft grid, slightly more for his hex grid,
>but still far short of 135;  but he expects some seed not to germinate
>and needs some extra seeds for spot planting.   There is also a
>miin-garden plan for a family of four.  -Olin
>
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