That catnip (like most mints) will quickly take over your bed, and will invite cats into your garden, where they will likely make a mess - I'd raise it somewhere else, if I could.

Do you have a trellis? Maybe between the cucumber and tomato rows? If you're growing them vertically and pruning them heavily (and they are indeterminate tomatoes) then you will have a crowded, but probably manageable two rows to the north. There will be a lot of light competition, though.

To the south, a full sized bush tomato will (according to Mel) take up at least 4 squares - is that one tomato, or 4?

Gosh I can't win this year with my garden LOL.

I have SERIOUS ants in the garden and I watched them all over some beans trying to come up and they damaged the beans (strange eh?) I put some of those stake bait traps and they came out of the hills, looked at them, and turned around and went back in ROFL.

Planting the catnip helped though. The ants are non-existant there and less throughout the garden.

We don't have any cats that roam around. I have 2 indoor cats myself, but there are no neighborhood cats at all that roam around. Think it will still be a problem??

And for the bush tomatoes, I was doing 1/sq. ft. Guess thats not an option. I am running out of room LOL. So how do I plant the cucs and tomatoes so they aren't competing so bad? I have one bed 1x10 that is strictly tomatoes but I wanted to do a few more.

Sounds like cats aren't a problem, but I would still get the catnip out of the bed ASAP, due to the aggressive invasiveness of the mint family. I would plant it outside of the bed, either in separate containers or in the ground itself. I don't know if it is as hearty and assertive as its other cousins, a tiny patch of which has grown to overtake my flower bed and surround my SFG (so far the weed barrier is doing OK at keeping it out)and gives me minty fresh shoes every time I walk around the garden.

Joining the chorus to pull the catnip asap. What kind of ants are these so I can give some suggestions on controls? (Though I'll admit 99% of my experience is fire ants)

there were many on here weeks ago that said ants weren't bad for gardens after I had mentioned that they truly were. "Live and let live" I believe was one of the responses back. They are bad. Johnny's Seeds sells a product that works pretty well. Its organic and safe to use. It did take me 3 applications to get rid of them, but, they eventually all got killed off. I think it's called "Diatec V". Do what you need to get rid of those things now that you have seen what they can do. I would be cautious with advice to the contrary-as you have now learned by first hand experience.

Ok I took out the catnip and just put it in a pot LOL. As for the ants, I'm still on the hunt for the organic stuff to use to get rid of them. Off to post a separate post of pics of my finished result!!