Square Yard Gardening

Slight tweak to my plans - the beds will be 2'6" square with 4 beds in a 10' long row. There'll be 4 rows of beds with a 1' wide path between each row. That means there'll be 16 x 2'6" square beds in the 10' x 13' bed. The rows will run west to east and the big bed slopes from north to south. That's the theory and it looks good on the back of an envelope.
I've even had a practice run in my kitchen where the tiles on the floor are approx 15" square so 4 squares are the size of a bed and one row of tiles is a path - ish.

Sounds awfully technical, but having 'marked' the beds they will then be permanent for that season. Having now decided your bed size do you have to accommodate flopping over the edges/growing space. Some plants might take up a whole bed with one plant.

Its not technical at all! Just 4, 10' long beds, each 2'6" wide.
Floppy things like courgettes and squash will be planted elsewhere - probably the old pond again.
Hopefully, I'll grow roots, shoots and leaves in these minibeds. Time will tell.

Feel free to mock me! I confused the orientation of the big bed, its 13' West - East and 10' North to South, not the other way round so I've ripped up my envelope and started another one. We now have 3x 13' beds running west to east, each comprising 5 beds approx 2'6" square.
The paths between the rows will be 15" wide.
If only I'd looked at this first https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.php?tid=1274

Feel free to mock me! I confused the orientation of the big bed, its 13' West - East and 10' North to South, not the other way round so I've ripped up my envelope and started another one. We now have 3x 13' beds running west to east, each comprising 5 beds approx 2'6" square.
The paths between the rows will be 15" wide.
If only I'd looked at this  first https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.php?tid=1274

Sounds similar to my diagonal beds? Each are  two foot wide with  fourteen inch paths. Lengths vary.

The Big bed is going to be extended to the south and should give me 5 rows of beds, not 3.
My other idea is to mark out the 2'6" squares with a line of companion plants - like tagetes or spring onions. Plants that don't take up much space but do something useful - and it will stop me tripping over bits of stick.

Feel free to mock me! 

Mock you? Heaven forfend!
As they say, what goes around, comes around.  It must be a good plan because you thought of it twice. Plant edges of something useful sounds pleasing.

I grow in beds that are 4ft/1.2metres wide. I plant in long rows. Usually 5 rows - most of my plants are 9inch/22cm apart or 4rows with plants spaced 1ft/30cm apart.

Dahlias are give a little bit more room - 2 rows, Plants spaced 18inch/45cm apart

My paths are 2ft/60cm wide