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Fall Harvest Squash & Brussels Bowl
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Roast the acorn squash and halved brussels sprouts until browned, toss with pomegranate seeds, and finish with torn sage.
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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.
Acorn squash
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
12 squash per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Brussels sprouts
1 garden bed
Based on 24 cups per year
12 lb per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Pomegranate seeds
1 shrub
Based on 6 cup per year
40 lb per mature shrub per year · 60 sq ft each
Sage
1 garden bed
Based on 72 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
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 9 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.
🌱 Pomegranate
1 shrub
Based on ~2.2 lb a year
≈ 40 lb per mature shrub per year
🌱 Black Pepper
1 vine
Based on ~0.03 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 3
🤝 Interplant onion and corn — Onions are said to help repel squash bugs and vine borers. The Three Sisters: sprawling squash leaves shade the soil and suppress weeds.
100% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 2 of 3
🤝 Companion planted — Aromatic thyme, sage, and rosemary help mask brassicas from the cabbage moth.
🐛 Trap crop — A dead-end trap: harlequin bugs pile onto mustard but cannot complete their life cycle on it. Pull and destroy the planting once it is covered. Aphids swarm nasturtium ahead of its neighbors, and its trailing habit keeps it tucked along the bed edge.
88% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 3 of 3
🐛 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.
🤝 Interplant basil and onion — Basil nearby is said to repel aphids and thrips and improve pepper growth. Onions help repel aphids from peppers without competing for root space.
25% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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