Garden Bed Planting Layout
Generate exact authored plant-center coordinates in aligned or half-staggered rows, respecting bed setbacks and closed exclusion areas with a minimum-spacing audit.
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How to use Garden Bed Planting Layout
Enter each bed's dimensions, center setbacks and independent row and plant spacing. Choose aligned or alternate-half rows and mark rectangular excluded areas. The report keeps every retained center, row counts and exact squared-distance evidence against your own minimum spacing.
- Use the example as the schema; replace its labels and entered model assumptions.
- Enter each bed's dimensions, center setbacks and independent row and plant spacing. Choose aligned or alternate-half rows and mark rectangular excluded areas. The report keeps every retained center, row counts and exact squared-distance evidence against your own minimum spacing.
- Calculate, inspect the complete witnesses and limitations, then copy or download the JSON report.
Good to know
- At most 10 independent beds and 20 closed exclusion rectangles per bed. Six-place decimal dimensions in mm are positive through 1,000,000; setbacks and minimum distance may be zero. At most 4,000 generated candidate centers, 4,000 rows and 1,000 retained centers across all beds. Candidate budget is checked before enumeration, including centers later excluded. A closed exclusion may have zero width or height and still exclude centers on its line or point.
- Coordinates use an exact half-micro-millimetre grid; squared-distance checks are exact. Nearest distance is explicitly approximate. Every within-bed pair is checked; only the first 20 violating-pair examples are shown with the complete count. This is a fixed layout, not maximal/optimal packing, plant-crown clearance, seed germination, crop-spacing, yield, soil or biological advice. Supply appropriate spacings yourself.
- Local calculation with no upload, input persistence or outside lookup. Model JSON is limited to 30,000 characters and 10,000 values. Decimal quantities are strings with up to six places; count fields use plain JSON integers. Exact fractions are capped at 8,192 bits. The complete JSON output is limited to 1,000,000 characters; approximate numbers preserve their stored values. Unsupported states fail explicitly.
Common questions
Does half-staggering automatically keep every plant at the same distance?
No. You independently supply the row and within-row spacing. The half shift changes the horizontal offset of alternate rows, while the report checks actual squared distances. It does not assume an equilateral pattern or choose biological spacing for you.
Are my model inputs saved or sent to a server?
No. This model runs in the current browser tab and creates a local JSON download. It does not save your input or call an external data service.
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