How many tomatoes, beans and Zuchinni's?

[hangin'witthepeeps]

I have expanded my little raised bed garden this year. I now have a 30x30 patch beside my boxes. This area has been my horses restroom for about 4 years. It has a lot of aged manure sitting on top, he has not had access to it in about 6 months. I plan on tilling it up really well and putting in tomatoes, bean tee-pees and zucchinis. How many "rows" can I have and what direction should I plant?

I was thinking of this, but may be you guys know better.

North

E T T T T Z
Bean TP
A T T T T Z
Bean TP
S T T T T Z
Bean TP
T T T T T Z
Water Spigot

I was thinking 4' spacing on all plants. This would add a lot of circulation, which I need as where I live is very HUMID. How many feet between the rows? I was thinking plant one measure 5' and plant another. Is this enough or too much? I might can get in another row of tomatoes, yummy. I would like every thing in straight rows as I'm going to use PVC pipe with small holes drilled in this area (recycled) as irrigation. I'm going to have zucchini coming out my ears, I hope and no blossom end rot and downy mildew.

Edit to move Bean TP's like Journey said.

 

[journey11]

Tomatoes need to be planted about 3 feet apart from each other in a row, 2 at least, but if your area is humid (like mine), don't crowd them. Plus it's hard to work them and spot problems/pests if they're too close together. 3 feet minimum between the rows because they're going to get bushy and take up around 18" of space each plant. 3 feet between the rows would leave you about 18" of space to pass when those tomatoes are full grown. I like to be able to get the wheelbarrow down the row, so I space mine at least 4'.

Squash will sprawl out some, so I'd put them on the perimeter. It won't hurt anything if they go over into the lawn a little, just mulch under them.

I would put the tall things, like the bean teepees to the East, then the tomatoes, then the zucchini. That way everything gets a good dose of evening sun. Three bean teepees is probably about right, maybe you could squeeze four. The beans will stay mostly within the perimeter of the teepee. Measure your rows on center (the dot where the actual plant sits). They will bush out from there, just make sure the plant's expected size leaves you enough of a row to walk down and not crowd each other. When it comes to dealing with diseases and pests, it's better to have more space than too little. All three of those plants need good air circulation.

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

The reason I'm putting them in the ground and by themselves is because they did poorly in my raised beds last year. I believe it was circulation, crowding, shading, humidity, and overhead watering that did it.

So I have some extra squares this year to play with. I've already got my asparagus bed going with asparagus up and "ferning" out, lol. I literally had no asparagus on Sunday and I now have a few that are almost 2 feet tall. Simply amazing. I'll have to take some pictures. I put in 24 pepper plants and some have little flower buds and about 15 cucumber plants. All done amazing in the raised beds last year.

This year I have Ichabod Eggplants to try. I tried to start from seed the Fairy Tale Eggplant, but they did not do well at all. So I found the Ichabod at the local hardware store/nursery. I need a few other plants to try this year that will do well in the raised bed. I have two totally empty 2x2 beds.

BTW, my green pea plants are doing beautifully. They are full of pods and we've been eating them right in the garden and the goats eat the shells, lol. We're loving the fresh peas.

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

New diagram:

Don't forget the bean t-p will now shade the raised beds. So should I move them up "North"?

 

[journey11]

They all need 6 hours full sun minimum. As long as they're not shaded in the evening, all's well. North or East is a good place to put the taller stuff.