Veg growing plan

Anyone know of a generic veg growing plan to feed a set number of people over a growing season aimed at growing as much of your own veg to consume as possible throught the year?

The one I've seen before has a suggested type and number of plants to grow during the year per person I think but for the life of me can't find it again.

Any help appreciated.

 

Hi Fens,

I had this book about 20 years ago,

http://www.amazon.com/How-Grow-More-Vegetables-Possible/dp/0898154154

It was alright till he started waffling on about hippy stuff, i'm sure a seedling is much more concerned about temperature, wind & nutrient than it is about what the Moon is doing.

 

Are there any 'one size fits all' guidelines?

For example I get through over 2,000 lbs of apples (because I mainly press them), plant hundreds of tomatoes (because I produce passata), grow hundreds of garlic (because we like it) and grow over a hundred leaf beet plants (because our hens like it). Last year I harvested 10 full size sacks of spuds and there's only about a dozen soft spuds left - had to buy some today.

EDIT: Mrs Scrungee just asked me where the garlic - something else we've run out of today (but there's still some garlic butter in the freezer).

 

I agree with Scrungee and feel a home garden gives the opportunity to grow what you personally like. I like the same veggies as Scrungee and have 19 apple trees, use all the tomatoes I can grow in a similar way and love beet (I have no hens). I adore French beans, pumpkin (winter squash) and zucchini and grow salad crops. This year I am growing early potatoes to use the same water as a new hedge which has been planted. Normally I am given them by the local farmer.

 

Also grow enormous quantities of fine, french 'fillet' beans (delicious fried in garlic), grew 36+ courgettes last year (aren't 2 or 3 supposed to 'feed a family? - we ate the lot) and love pumpkins. Don't think any 'guidelines' apply to us.

 

Cheers Ziggy will check that out, hippy stuff and all

The plan I was referring to was not supposed to be a 'one size fits all' or prescriptive guidelines in any way, unless I missed the subtitle of Robot Veg Gardening . If I remember rightly it was just a generic outline to give you an idea of number of plants/anticipated quantities, space requirement to provide food for a given number of people, I think it included growing most of the 'typical' basics, spuds, sprouts, toms, cabbage etc, so was obviously quite general. From that, of course, the idea is to adjust it to fit your own food desires, habits, diet etc. but it was useful in giving a general idea of ratios of basics to space requirement and planting alternatives. In the end though what you end up with is tailored and adjusted to your own consumption needs/tastes. No corn for me and plenty of garlic, tomatoes, beans and ...

I'll keep on searching as I would find something like that useful as I think about expanding growing.

 

Got this, but you might need to copy & blow it up.

 

So more like a 'yield per plant/per foot of row/per acre' and some space guidelines then? It's just that I often see such rubbish comments like 3 tomato plants will keep a family in tomatoes all summer.

 

http://www.groworganicfood.info/gardening/vegetables/how-much-veg-to-plant/

Dr Hessayon's "Vegetable Expert" book includes yield-per-row length info - so if you know what you have bought from supermarket in past years you could work back from that

 

Scrungee that is a lot of courgettes. I am growing 5 - all different. I grow my pumpkins straight into the compost heap. This is a heap as distinct from the dalek bins. My favourite is Crown Prince.

 

Thanks for those suggestions, looks like some useful stuff to look into.

Cheers