From the ground up
Celery Root & Leek Soup
From the Sowcial team
Simmer chopped celeriac, leek, and potato in broth until tender, then blend smooth with a splash of butter.
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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.
Butter
2 quarts of milk
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Celeriac
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
20 roots per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Leek
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
40 leeks per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Potato
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
40 lb per 32 sq ft bed · 32 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
Paprika
1 lb of sweet red peppers
Based on 3 teaspoon per year
0.2 lb of dried ground paprika per lb of fresh peppers
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 12 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.
🌱 Black Pepper
1 vine
Based on ~0.03 lb dried peppercorns a year
≈ 2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year
Bed 1 of 2
🤝 Companion planted — Onion scent helps mask celery from aphids and the carrot fly.
90% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 2
🐛 Trap crop — French marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes, and the scent helps mask nearby crops from aphids and beetles.
🤝 Interplant corn and beans — Both are heavy feeders but root at different depths, a long-standing pairing. Beans are said to help repel Colorado potato beetle.
24% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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