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Bee’s friend Planting Calculator
Everything you need to plan Bee’s friend: recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.
At a glance
- Recommended spacing
- 9″
- Planting pattern
- Intensive bed
- Time to first production
- Varies by variety
- Enter your supplier's maturity value to estimate
- Succession planting
- Not typical
- Start indoors
- Direct sow / not typical
- Production pattern
- Medium producer
- Hardy annual
Plan your Bee’s friend beds
Prefilled with Bee’s friend's recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.
Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 9″Range null–null″
Your plan
326
Total plants
Based on 1.63 plants/sq ft at 9″ spacing
- Seeds to start (10% buffer)
- 359
- 72-cell trays needed
- 5
- 128-cell trays needed
- 3
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Planning notes
- Landscape fabric
Medium producer. A planting stays productive across a more limited window, so closer succession timing helps keep supply steady.
- This crop can be direct sown.
- Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.
- First-production timing varies by cultivar and growing system, so enter the maturity value from your seed supplier to estimate production.