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Spring Pea & Beet Salad
From the Sowcial team
Toss the peas and roasted beets with torn mint leaves, crumble the goat cheese over the top, and finish with olive oil and a squeeze of lemon.
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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.
Beets
1 garden bed
Based on 36 each per year
40 beets per 32 sq ft bed · 32 sq ft each
Goat cheese
1 goat
Based on 3 cup per year
50 lb of cheese per goat per year · 200 sq ft each
Mint
1 pot
Based on 3 cup per year
8 cups per pot · 4 sq ft each
Peas
1 garden bed
Based on 24 cups per year
15 lb per 32 sq ft bed · 32 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
Lemon
1 tree
Based on 6 each per year
100 lb per mature tree per year · 100 sq ft each
Olive oil
3 lb of olives
Based on 24 tablespoons per year
0.15 quarts of oil per lb of olives
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.
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.
Container plantings
These spread too aggressively to share a bed. Grow each in its own pot instead.
🪴 Mint
1 pot
🪴 Mint spreads aggressively through underground runners — keep it in its own pot, not a shared bed.
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
🌱 Lemon
1 tree
Based on ~1.3 lb a year
≈ 100 lb per mature tree 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 2
🤝 Interplant onion and garlic — Two light feeders that share a bed well, with onion scent deterring leaf miners. Garlic's scent helps keep aphids and leaf miners off beet greens.
90% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
Bed 2 of 2
🐛 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 carrot and spinach — Beans fix nitrogen the carrots can use, and the two root at different depths. Beans feed the soil while spinach uses the shade of their lower leaves.
75% of this 4×8 ft bed planted · dashed squares are companions to slip in along the edges
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