Bed recipe · field-tested

Spinach + Potatoes + Beans + Swiss chard

Spenat + Potatis + Bönor + Mangold

Grown for real in my garden in 2016 — first written up in the log.

Illustration
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How the bed is laid out

Potato rows with beans climbing between the plants.

Potatoes are the backbone, growing May to September — which leaves room for spinach before (winter-sown) and Swiss chard after. Borlotti was the bean that year.

In this bed

Spinach Potatoes Beans Swiss chard

The season, month by month

	Apr	May	Jun	Aug	Sep	Oct
Spinach direct-sown		H	H
Potatoes sown indoors		T		H	H	H
Beans	S	T
Swiss chard sown indoors		S

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.

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