From the ground up
Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables
From the Sowcial team
Toss the potatoes, carrots, and onion with garlic and rosemary, arrange around the chicken, and roast until the vegetables are tender and the chicken is cooked through.
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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.
Carrots
1 garden bed
Based on 48 each per year
120 carrots per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Garlic
1 garden bed
Based on 36 cloves per year
40 bulbs per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Onion
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
50 onions per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Potatoes
1 garden bed
Based on 48 each per year
40 lb per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Rosemary
1 garden bed
Based on 24 sprigs per year
6 cups per 8 sq ft bed · 8 sq ft each
Whole chicken
12 chickens
Based on 12 each per year
4 lb dressed weight per bird · 4 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
Olive oil
3 lb of olives
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
0.15 quarts of oil per lb of olives
Paprika
1 lb of sweet red peppers
Based on 12 teaspoon per year
0.2 lb of dried ground paprika per lb of fresh peppers
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 12 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 ~0.03 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 4
🤝 Companion planted — Like onions, garlic helps mask carrots from root maggot flies.
🐛 Trap crop — French marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes, and the scent helps mask nearby crops from aphids and beetles.
61% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 4
🤝 Interplant tomato and pepper — Onions help repel aphids and other pests that trouble tomatoes. Onions help repel aphids from peppers without competing for root space.
24% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 3 of 4
🐛 Trap crop — French marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes, and the scent helps mask nearby crops from aphids and beetles.
🤝 Interplant corn and beans — Both are heavy feeders but root at different depths, a long-standing pairing. Beans are said to help repel Colorado potato beetle.
57% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 4 of 4
🤝 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.
24% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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