{"id":392,"date":"2017-04-02T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2017-04-02T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:08:45","slug":"how-far-apart-should-i-plant-vegetable-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/how-far-apart-should-i-plant-vegetable-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"How far apart should I plant vegetable starts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GarlicBed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GarlicBed-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden raised bed surrounded by grassy lawn.  Green grass like garlic plants grow in a grid. \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Caption: Garlic Bed. This lovely raised bed is full of garlic. The best time to plant garlic in Houston area is November 1 ish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Plants need room to grow<\/h1>\n<h2>Location: Houston, TX<\/h2>\n<p>Have a little daydream when you plant your vegetable start.\u00a0 This is the best way to ensure that the tender shoot will have the proper amount of space to grow.\u00a0 Imagine the plant in its full blown glory.\u00a0 Leaves and blossoms and fruit all at once.\u00a0 The sun is warm the soil is moist.\u00a0 Then open your eyes and physically move your arms around in the space that will be occupied by your dream plant.\u00a0 Plant the plant in the center of that area.<\/p>\n<p>The wrong way to space plants is to look at the size of your bed, and look at the number of plants you have, and squeeze plants in.<\/p>\n<p>No squeezing, only growing!<\/p>\n<p>Also, I don\u2019t start plants from seeds in beds, my method is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/start-seeds-in-small-pots\/\">Start Seeds in Small Pots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants need room to grow Location: Houston, TX Have a little daydream when you plant your vegetable start.\u00a0 This is the best way to ensure that the tender shoot will have the proper amount of space to grow.\u00a0 Imagine the plant in its full blown glory.\u00a0 Leaves and blossoms and fruit all at once.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}