Planting quantity verse harvest quantity
Ever wonder how much produce your plot will produce when you plant seeds or seedlings? Diane Brooks from Delridge Giving Gardens sent us the results from their garden last year.
Here’s some numbers from Delridge P-Patch Giving Garden that might help new gardens understand what they can expect from their plantings.
The list is the plant, start or seed quantity = pounds harvested. For example, for 16 tomato plants, they harvested 58 pounds of fruit
| Plant | # of plants or seeds quantity | Pounds harvested |
| tomato | 16 plants | = 58 pounds |
| hot pepper | 16 plants | = 6 1/2 pounds |
| beets | 60 plants | = 8 pounds |
| zukes | 3 plants | 95 pounds |
| Patty Pan squash | 1 plant | 8 pounds |
| Kabocha squash | 1 plant | 2 1/2 pounds (1 squash only) |
| cilantro | 150 plants | 30 pounds (harvested w/roots) |
| bunching onion | 1 seed pack | 11 pounds |
| Komatsuna Japanese Spinach Mustard | 174 plants | 41 pounds (club root infestation) |
| Scarlet Runner beans | 1 seed pack | 60 pounds |
| basil | 27 plants | 10 1/2 pounds (seems high!??) – they grew fast after each cutting |
| Giant Snow peas | 1 pound seeds | 42 pounds (partial crop failure after germination) |
Thanks Diane for this information. It should help us plan what we plant this year in our own giving gardens!
2 Comments
Dianne
Sounds like it was a productive year! Thank you for sharing the produce information: it is very helpful.
I grow starts in a passive greenhouse in South Park: because the food bank clients wanted the warm weather starts by mid-May I went ahead and let them go, with instructions to use cloches &/or to bring them in at night. As always I planted some in the food bank’s raised beds, too. I did find that we had a bit of a cold snap and lost about 50% of them and had to re-plant. And the peas got some sort of weevil in them, and I had to replant those, also. I’ve made it a practice for many years to hold some seeds & starts back because “stuff happens.” Glad I did. And this year I planted the warm weather starts later & will keep them until June 1.
Jude Berman
Nice! We’ve been keeping better records at the Interbay Giving Garden in recent years and I’m going to try to come up with a report like this for 2014.