How many items can I plant in one bed?

In one bed imagining it the face of a clock, I planted 2 Cherry Tomato Plants (at 9:00 & 3:00), 4 cucumber plants (along edge with a trellis to climb up and out of bed from 11:00 to 1:00), 4 pepper plants along the edge (at 4:00, 5:00, 6:10, 8:00), 2 hills of parsley between 9-10:00 and 2-3:00, in toward the middle), 2 basil plants (between tomato plants-they make the tomatoes sooooooo sweet!), oregano plant at 6:00 but in about 7 inches, and some white icicle radishes along the edge to the cucumbers to help with bugs). Everything grew wonderfully, abundantly, and seemed to find the space adequately. I fertilized only once during the summer as I started the bed out with fresh soil & compost, but will have to add more compost and fertilizer this year, and/or plant some green & yellow beans to restore the nitrogen levels to the soil.the other circular bed I planted 4 hills of yellow squash, each having 3 seed per hill, and some green beans & radish plants among the hills to deter the bugs. There was plenty of room. I wrapped a plastic fence around the bed that came up about knee to mid thigh level, and encouraged the squash to grow up and out. It produced abundantly.

What does one do about edging when this is placed over existing lawn, I am assuming a weed-eater will damage the materials?

I would recommend either mulching or putting some kind of stone down. I'm unsure if weed eater would damage the material but I dont think it would. Obviously you can't weed-wack it so that is kind of annoying. I have been squatting down and just using a big outdoors knife to keep the grass around it from getting crazy..but that's pretty annoying. I put these down on a huge patch of dirt that seemed like grass was not going to grow back on my lawn, thinking I'll just put some mulch or pea gravel down (I've got four of these set up in a square pattern) Well I never got around to mulching or graveling, and the grass did eventually creep its way back over. I am going to make a wall around all 4 of my bags with stones (the kind you'd use for retaining walls) but that is going to be kind of costly but it will look nice. I wish I had bought square or rectangular bags because then I could just surround them with cedar and it would be much cheaper than buying all that stone. These bags are good but I do recommend going the square route and just building a wooden surround yourself to save money.

I would like to know what size Smart Pot would work best for tomatoes.

I have had three years of great success with four plants in the traditional 100 gallon size. The large Big Bag Bed is also 100 gallons but wider and narrower, but not really deep enough for large tomato plants. It's great for other plants though.

Do you think I could put this on my balcony, grow grass in it, and let my dog use it as a 'potty pad'? I have 2 that I grow veggies in already.

Part depends on how big your dog is, and how often you want to be picking up its poop....and you have to think about how dogs fling dirt all over when they are done. Might not be such a great idea....at least, I wouldn't.

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