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Butternut Squash Soup
From the Sowcial team
Sauté the onion and garlic, add the cubed butternut squash and broth, simmer until soft, and blend smooth with a few fresh sage leaves.
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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.
Butternut squash
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
15 squash per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Garlic
1 garden bed
Based on 24 cloves per year
40 bulbs per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Onion
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
50 onions per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Sage
1 garden bed
Based on 48 leaves per year
6 cups per 8 sq ft bed · 8 sq ft each
Black pepper
1 vine
Based on 6 teaspoon per year
2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year · 25 sq ft each
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 12 teaspoon per year
0.25 lb of salt per gallon of seawater
Smoked paprika
1 lb of sweet red peppers
Based on 6 teaspoon per year
0.18 lb of dried ground smoked paprika per lb of fresh peppers
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.
🌱 Black Pepper
1 vine
Based on ~0.03 lb dried peppercorns a year
≈ 2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year
Bed 1 of 4
🤝 Companion planted — Onions are said to help repel squash bugs and vine borers.
100% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 4
🤝 Companion planted — Onions are said to help repel squash bugs and vine borers.
🐛 Trap crop — Squash bugs and vine borers lay on blue hubbard in preference to thin-skinned summer squash and cucumbers nearby.
29% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 3 of 4
🤝 Interplant tomato and pepper — Garlic's scent helps deter aphids and spider mites from tomatoes. Garlic is said to deter aphids and spider mites from peppers and eggplant.
5% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 4 of 4
🤝 Interplant pepper and carrot — Aromatic herbs like thyme and oregano are said to help mask peppers from aphids. Sage and rosemary among carrots are said to throw off the carrot rust fly.
18% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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