Bed recipe · field-tested

Potatoes + Sunflowers + Beans

Potatis + Solrosor + Bönor

Grown for real in my garden in 2023 — first written up in the log.

Illustration
coming

How the bed is laid out

Three long rows: potatoes in the first, low sunflowers in the middle, beans in the third.

An experiment in a block of three 9.6 m rows. Low sunflower varieties only — the beds are 70 cm high, so tall ones would be absurd. Written up as a draft that never got published.. until now.

In this bed

Potatoes Sunflowers Beans

The season, month by month

	Apr	May	Jun	Aug	Sep	Oct
Potatoes sown indoors		T		H	H	H
Sunflowers sown indoors	S	S	T		H
Beans	S	T

Sow — indoors or direct, per row note Transplant Harvest Sowings before March aren't shown — check each crop page.

A friendly reminder: every garden plays by its own rules. Zones, soil, weather and a hundred small things decide what works — so this is how I did it and what worked for me, not a promise. Try, learn, adjust, try again.. that's half the fun anyway.

This recipe is coming as a printable PDF. Join the letter — hear when it lands

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