Square Foot Gardening Lesson of the Week

It's important not just to plan around which plants are tallest, but also which ones might get tall first.  For instance--just for the sake of argument let's say one planted snow peas in front of the cucumbers.  The cucumbers might get just a bit stunted around, say, June 16, because the snow peas are now 15 inches tall and completely block all the sun from getting to the cucumbers............................