From the ground up
Cranberry Orange Sauce
From the Sowcial team
Simmer cranberries with orange juice and zest and a little sugar until the berries burst and the sauce thickens.
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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.
Cranberries
3 garden beds
Based on 36 cups per year
3 lb per 32 sq ft bed per year · 32 sq ft each
Orange
1 tree
Based on 12 each per year
200 lb per mature tree per year · 150 sq ft each
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 1.56 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.
Container plantings
These spread too aggressively to share a bed. Grow each in its own pot instead.
🔴 Cranberry
3 pots
🪴 Spreads by runners to form a dense mat. Give it a dedicated bed with edging to keep it from creeping into lawn or paths.
Other growing setups
Grown outside a shared bed — logs, grow bags, and other specialty setups rather than garden-bed square footage.
🌱 Orange
1 tree
Based on ~3.4 lb a year
≈ 200 lb per mature tree per year
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