Sunday, August 21, 2011

Just saw this on Gizmodo... Nice!  We need a few...

Saturday, August 20, 2011

How Much to Grow for a Family of Four

Ferry-Morse 3140 Organic Tomato Seeds, Beefsteak (600 Milligram Packet)

How many vegetable plants does your family need (for fresh eating)?  Below is a list of vegetables and the number of plants required to provide a family of four with fresh vegetables.  You would obviously want to grow more for "putting away," or if your family is larger.

Aparagus - 40
Snap or green beans - 120
Beets - 90
Broccoli - 20
Brussels sprouts - 5
Cabbage - 20
Cantaloupe - 3-4
Carrot - 200
Cauliflower - 15
Celery - 24
Collards - 25
Sweet Corn - 200
Popping Corn - 150
Cucumber - 10
Eggplant - 10
Garlic - 50
Kale - 15
Lettuce - 20
Okra - 20
Onion - 40
Parsnip - 50-100
Peas - 50
Pepper - 5-10
Potato - 50-100
Pumpkin - 4
Radish - 100
Rutabaga - 30
Spinach - 40
Squash - 5
Sweet Potato - 25
Swiss chard - 60
Tomato - 10
Turnip - 20-40
Watermelon - 5

Starting plants by seed is the most economical way to grow vegetable plants!

Hot Summer!

Since it's been well over a year since an update, I thought I would let the blogsphere know that we are as busy as ever!  So busy, in fact, that we haven't updated in a while.  We will be posting stuff here every now and then...See you soon!

-Trey