From the ground up
Farmers Breakfast
From the Sowcial team
Cook the potatoes and green beans until tender, add the tomatoes and basil, then finish with eggs and crumbled goat cheese.
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How much infrastructure would this recipe take?
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.
Basil
1 garden bed
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
12 cups per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Eggs
1 chicken
Based on 48 each per year
250 eggs per chicken per year · 4 sq ft each
Goat cheese
1 goat
Based on 6 cup per year
50 lb of cheese per goat per year · 200 sq ft each
Green beans
1 garden bed
Based on 12 cup per year
15 lb per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Potatoes
1 garden bed
Based on 24 each per year
40 lb per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Tomatoes
1 garden bed
Based on 24 each per year
40 tomatoes per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
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.
Switch any crop above to Hydro and it moves down here into its own system recommendation instead of a soil bed — tailor it crop by crop to what you can actually grow, whether that's a yard full of beds or a porch with a couple of buckets.
Bed 1 of 2
🤝 Companion planted — Basil is the classic tomato companion, said to repel aphids, whiteflies, and hornworms.
🐛 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.
97% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 2
🤝 Companion planted — Beans are said to help repel Colorado potato beetle.
🐛 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.
66% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
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