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Roasted Root Vegetable Medley
From the Sowcial team
Cube the parsnips, turnips, rutabaga, and carrots, toss with melted butter, and roast until caramelized and tender.
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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
3 quarts of milk
Based on 36 tablespoons per year
0.5 lb of butter per quart of milk
Carrots
1 garden bed
Based on 48 each per year
120 carrots per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Parsnips
2 garden beds
Based on 36 each per year
35 parsnips per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Rutabaga
1 garden bed
Based on 12 each per year
30 rutabagas per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Turnips
1 garden bed
Based on 36 each per year
40 turnips per 32 sq ft bed · 32 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
Salt
1 gallon of seawater
Based on 12 teaspoon per year
0.25 lb of salt per gallon of seawater
Smoked paprika
1 lb of sweet red peppers
Based on 6 teaspoon per year
0.18 lb of dried ground smoked paprika per lb of fresh peppers
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
Bed 1 of 4
🤝 Companion planted — Carrots and parsnips need the same deep, loose, stone-free soil and the same thinning.
100% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 2 of 4
🤝 Companion planted — Carrots and parsnips need the same deep, loose, stone-free soil and the same thinning.
🐛 Trap crop — French marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes, and the scent helps mask nearby crops from aphids and beetles.
55% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 3 of 4
🤝 Companion planted — Cabbage-family crops share the same pests and heavy feeding, so they plant as one block that is easy to net and rotate together.
100% of this 4×8 ft bed planted
Bed 4 of 4
🤝 Companion planted — Cabbage-family crops share the same pests and heavy feeding, so they plant as one block that is easy to net and rotate together.
🐛 Trap crop — A dead-end trap: harlequin bugs pile onto mustard but cannot complete their life cycle on it. Pull and destroy the planting once it is covered. 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
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