[Growster...]

We grow most of our veg quite close, in staggered rows so that each plant has a wide gap around it, but the 'rows' are the same distance apart as the individual plants in each rown. 

You mean like this, where the distance between each "x" or plant is the same horizontally or vertically, but greater on the diagonal. It's the way I plant & I'm sure a lot of others do as well.

x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x
  x   x   x   x   x   x   x

That's 'Tom Tiddler' style in our book DD!

(Not the Roy Harper song you understand...;0)

[DD.]

That's "Grandad's way" in mine!

[Growster...]

Ha ha ha DD!

I can't remember where I read the 'Tom Tiddler' fact, and you just have to believe it...;0)

Like 'Grandad's way, that makes much more sense to the GCs!

[Endymion]

We grow most of our veg quite close, in staggered rows so that each plant has a wide gap around it, but the 'rows' are the same distance apart as the individual plants in each rown. 

You mean like this, where the distance between each "x" or plant is the same horizontally or vertically, but greater on the diagonal. It's the way I plant & I'm sure a lot of others do as well.

x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x
  x   x   x   x   x   x   x

Yes, that's it - but we don't call it anything except 'cramming them in'