The Size of a Small Vegetable Garden

You can grow enough tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and green beans for a small family in just a small area. By using space-saving methods, you can make good use of an area as small as 4 feet by 6 feet.

Maximizing Your Space

• Choose dwarf, bush and determinate varieties of squash, beans and tomatoes to save space. You can also interplant by growing more than one type of vegetable together. You can plant fast-growing radish seeds along with slower-growing plants like carrots. You can also plant lettuce between your tomato plants.

Container Planting

• If you live in an apartment with only a small balcony, you can still have a small vegetable garden if you plant your veggies in containers. Use standard potting soil in containers at least 8 inches in diameter, and choose varieties of vegetables such as Small Fry tomatoes and Dixie squash, according to Texas A&M University.

Grow Vertically

• You can save space and grow even more vegetables if you grow some plants vertically. Cucumbers, pole beans and other vining varieties perform best when they have a trellis or fence to grow up. When you grow vertically, plants require hardly any space on the soil to thrive and produce well.