How Much To Plant To Provide A Year’s Worth Of FoodREALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information
These are the two main resources I used to compile this list:
Sunset’s Vegetable Garden Book (from 1944)
The Gardener’s A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Want to know how much to plant per person? This is what I found:
Artichokes
1-4 plants per person
Asparagus
10-12 plants per person
Beans, Bush
10-20 plants per person
Beans, Lima
10-20 plants per person
Beans, Pole
10-20 plants per person
Beets
10-20 plants per person
Broccoli
5-10 plants per person
Brussels Sprouts
2-8 plants per person
Cabbage
3-10 plants per person
Carrots
10-40 plants per person
Cauliflower
3-5 plants per person
Celeriac
1-5 plants per person
Celery
3-8 plants per person
Corn
12-40 plants per person
Cucumbers
3-5 plants per person
Eggplant
1 plant per person, plus 2-3 extra per family
Kale
1 5’ row per person
Lettuce
10-12 plants per person
Melons
2-6 plants per person
Onions
40-80 plants per person
Peas
25-60 plants per person
Peppers
5-6 plants per person
Potatoes
10-30 plants per person
Pumpkins
1 plant per person
Rhubarb
2-3 crowns per person
Spinach
10-20 plants per person
Summer Squash
2-4 plants per person
Winter Squash
2 plants per person
Sweet Potatoes
5 plants per person
Tomatoes
2-5 plants per person
Obviously, all of this will vary based on your family’s size, tastes, allergies and climate. If you’re on the GAPS Diet, you’ll obviously plant more squash and leafy greens, and no corn, potatoes or sweet potatoes. If you can grow some of these vegetables year-round, you will be able to grow smaller rows. If you’re doing Square Foot Gardening, you may be able to plant things closer together & thus take up less space in your garden. Never the less, I believe that we all ought to be considering how much we use in a year and how much needs to be grown to supply our family’s needs (whether we are the ones doing the growing or not).
