Lettuce, kale, spinach, arugula, chard — a single 4-foot bed can keep producing fresh greens for months with the right cut-and-come-again method.
Learn the method →These are the workhorses of a 4-foot farm — fast, forgiving, and endlessly harvestable.

Cut outer leaves and it keeps growing. Multiple harvests from one planting.

Cool-weather champion. Packed with iron and ready in weeks.

Point a corner at a trellis and get sweet bites all summer.

Hardy and productive — keeps giving even after frost.

Colorful, nutrient-dense, and nearly impossible to kill.

Peppery, fast, and perfect for a quick bed-to-plate salad.
Tap any green above — here's how each one earns its place in a 4-foot farm.
The king of cut-and-come-again. Snip the outer leaves and the heart keeps pushing new growth — a single planting can feed you for a month or more.
▸ Best in: spring & fall · Ready in: 30–45 days
A cool-weather champion loaded with iron and vitamins. It bolts in heat, so it shines in the shoulder seasons when your bed needs a win.
▸ Best in: early spring & autumn · Ready in: 35–50 days
Give one corner a small trellis and you'll get sweet, sun-warm bites all summer. The highest-yield crop for the space it takes.
▸ Best in: summer · Ready in: 50–65 days
Hardy and productive — it actually sweetens after frost and keeps giving when little else will. The set-and-forget green.
▸ Best in: fall through winter · Ready in: 50–70 days
Colorful, nutrient-dense, and nearly impossible to kill. Stems in every shade make the bed look like a garden and taste like one too.
▸ Best in: spring–fall · Ready in: 40–60 days
Peppery, fast, and perfect for a quick bed-to-plate salad. One of the quickest crops you can grow — ready before you forget you planted it.
▸ Best in: spring & fall · Ready in: 20–30 days

Instead of pulling the whole plant, you harvest a few outer leaves and let the center keep growing. One bed feeds you for months.
The 4-Foot Farm Blueprint lays out exactly which greens to plant together, how to stagger them, and how to keep a continuous harvest with almost no effort.
Get the full plan →Start with the Blueprint and turn four feet of soil into a season-long salad bar.
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