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Mushroom & Leek Sauté
From the Sowcial team
Melt butter in a skillet, add sliced leeks and mushrooms, and cook until the leeks are soft and the mushrooms are golden, finishing with fresh thyme.
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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.
Butter
2 quarts of milk
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Leek
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
40 leeks per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Mushrooms
2 grow bags
Based on 36 cups per year
5 lb per grow bag per flush · 4 sq ft each
Thyme
1 garden bed
Based on 12 teaspoon per year
6 cups per 8 sq ft bed · 8 sq ft each
Black pepper
1 vine
Based on 3 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
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 6 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.
🌱 Mushroom (Button/Cremini)
2 grow bags
Based on ~6 lb a year
≈ 5 lb per grow bag per flush
🌱 Black Pepper
1 vine
Based on ~0.02 lb dried peppercorns a year
≈ 2 lb dried peppercorns per vine per year
Bed 1 of 2
🤝 Companion planted — Onions help repel aphids from peppers without competing for root space.
🐛 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.
55% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 2
🤝 Interplant pepper and carrot — Aromatic herbs like thyme and oregano are said to help mask peppers from aphids. Sage and rosemary among carrots are said to throw off the carrot rust fly.
4% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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