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Garlic Butter Oyster Mushrooms
From the Sowcial team
Melt butter in a hot skillet, add torn oyster mushrooms in a single layer, and sear undisturbed until golden. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, then finish with parsley, salt, and black pepper.
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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.
Black pepper
1 vine
Based on 3 teaspoon per year
2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year · 25 sq ft each
Butter
2 quarts of milk
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Garlic
1 garden bed
Based on 36 cloves per year
40 bulbs per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Oyster mushrooms
2 grow bags
Based on 24 cups per year
2 lb per grow bag per flush · 2 sq ft each
Parsley
1 garden bed
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
10 cups per 16 sq ft bed · 16 sq ft each
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 3 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 ~0.02 lb dried peppercorns a year
≈ 2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year
🌱 Oyster Mushroom
2 grow bags
Based on ~3.8 lb a year
≈ 2 lb per grow bag per flush
Bed 1 of 2
🤝 Interplant tomato and pepper — Garlic's scent helps deter aphids and spider mites from tomatoes. Garlic is said to deter aphids and spider mites from peppers and eggplant.
8% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 2 of 2
🤝 Interplant tomato and pepper — Parsley left to flower draws in the hoverflies whose larvae eat tomato aphids. Parsley's flowers bring in the aphid predators that also work the peppers.
15% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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