From the ground up
Garden Ratatouille
From the Sowcial team
Roast the vegetables until tender, then simmer them with basil, olive oil, and seasoning until the flavors come together.
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Household production plan
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 3 cup per year
12 cups per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Bell peppers
1 garden bed
Based on 24 each per year
30 peppers per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Cucumber
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
30 cucumbers per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Tomatoes
2 garden beds
Based on 48 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 5
🤝 Companion planted — Basil nearby is said to repel aphids and thrips and improve pepper growth.
100% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 5
🤝 Companion planted — Basil nearby is said to repel aphids and thrips and improve pepper growth.
🐛 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.
30% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 3 of 5
🐛 Trap crop — Squash bugs and vine borers lay on blue hubbard in preference to thin-skinned summer squash and cucumbers nearby.
🤝 Interplant lettuce and corn — Lettuce uses the cool soil beneath a cucumber trellis before summer heat. Cucumbers can climb the cornstalks, and the corn shelters them from wind.
65% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 4 of 5
🤝 Interplant basil and carrot — Basil is the classic tomato companion, said to repel aphids, whiteflies, and hornworms. Carrots loosen the soil around tomato roots without competing for the same nutrients.
100% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 5 of 5
🐛 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 carrot — Basil is the classic tomato companion, said to repel aphids, whiteflies, and hornworms. Carrots loosen the soil around tomato roots without competing for the same nutrients.
45% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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