It’s often difficult to know exactly how much of each crop to plant, even for experienced gardeners. You’ve had to have been pretty meticulous with keeping track of your harvests to have a firm grasp on how much each of the plants you grew last year actually produced. And then need to average that out over a few years, figure out whether that’s enough for your needs, and then decide on how many plants you’ll need this year based on that average.

But how do you figure out how many of something you’ll need if you’ve never grown it before? And if you’re a beginner, where do you even start to figure this all out?

That was one of the biggest problems I faced as a new gardener. So, in today’s episode we’ll briefly cover a couple of different ways you can use to figure out how many plants you’ll need to meet your harvest goals this year. It is not exact and it will require some time and patience to get through, but once you have a starting point it gets easier from there. Let’s dig in!

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RESOURCES:

Transplanted Vegetable Crops | Plant Quantity & Average Yield Chart + Feet of Row per Acre | Johnny's Selected Seeds (johnnyseeds.com)

Direct-Seeded Vegetable Crops | Seed Quantity & Average Yield Chart | Johnny's Selected Seeds (johnnyseeds.com)

Vegetable Crop Yields, Plants per Person, and Crop Spacing (harvesttotable.com)

Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Vegetable Growing Guides

Vegetable Planting Calendar | MU Extension (missouri.edu)

How Much Should I Plant? Vegetable Yields Per Plant – Bonnie Plants