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Artichoke & Lemon Dip
From the Sowcial team
Chop the artichoke hearts and warm gently with garlic and lemon juice, mashing lightly to a coarse dip.
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These are rough annual estimates based on the grow guide's typical yields, and only cover ingredients you're growing. Anything set to buy is on your grow plan's shopping list instead. Use them for planning, then adjust for your climate, losses, preservation, and actual harvests. Toggle any crop to Hydro to plan it as a hydroponic setup instead of a soil bed.
Artichoke hearts
2 plants
Based on 24 cups per year
12 artichokes per plant per year · 16 sq ft each
Garlic
1 garden bed
Based on 24 cloves per year
40 bulbs per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Lemon
1 tree
Based on 12 each per year
100 lb per mature tree per year · 100 sq ft each
Black pepper
1 vine
Based on 3 teaspoon per year
2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year · 25 sq ft each
Crushed red pepper flakes
1 lb of dried chili peppers
Based on 1.56 teaspoon per year
0.85 lb of flakes per lb of dried peppers
Olive oil
3 lb of olives
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
0.15 quarts of oil per lb of olives
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 3 teaspoon per year
0.25 lb of salt per gallon of seawater
Garden layout
What planting these beds could look like
Each square is roughly one square foot of a standard 4×8 ft bed. Planted squares are shaded; the rest is open soil in that bed. Known companion plants share the leftover space in a bed instead of each getting their own. Where a bed grows a single crop, we flag good companions to interplant (shown as dashed squares), and a small border planting of trap crops is tucked in wherever it can lure pests away from your real crops. Both are how you hold pests down without reaching for a pesticide.
Other growing setups
Grown outside a shared bed — logs, grow bags, and other specialty setups rather than garden-bed square footage.
🌱 Artichoke
2 plants
Based on ~18 artichokes a year
≈ 12 artichokes per plant per year
🌱 Lemon
1 tree
Based on ~2.6 lb a year
≈ 100 lb per mature tree per year
🌱 Black Pepper
1 vine
Based on ~0.02 lb dried peppercorns a year
≈ 2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year
🫒 Olive
1 tree
Based on ~2.5 lb of olives a year
≈ 40 lb of olives per mature tree per year
Bed 1 of 1
🤝 Companion planted — Garlic is said to deter aphids and spider mites from peppers and eggplant.
🐛 Trap crop — French marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes, and the scent helps mask nearby crops from aphids and beetles. Aphids swarm nasturtium ahead of its neighbors, and its trailing habit keeps it tucked along the bed edge.
30% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
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