This year I found a chart somewhere which gave suggested amounts of vegetables to plant per person in a household. Cannot find that chart anywhere in book or online. I get the simple stuff: if everyone hates cauliflour, don't plant any. Can anyone lead me to such a chart? For example: for a 3 member family plant x number of carrots.

There is something similar to that in "Square Foot Gardening". You might check there first. Also check your local library for book of a similar nature.

There's a more difficult
round about way
of calculating
what you want in this book:
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How to Grow More Vegetables
6 th editionm revised
John Jeavons
A Grow Biointensive Publication
Ten Speed Press
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May be you can ask your library to
carry this book.
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Good Luck,
bill in socal

To be honest with you, I don't put much faith in these calculators. People's eating/cooking habits vary so dramatically that it seems impossible these would provide adequate guidance.

Plant lots, if you have extra, give it away.

Rodale Press- How To Grow Vegetables and Fruits By The Organic Method, 1975 Eleventh Edition, starting on pg. 39.....among other sources. Your extention office also has publications on the subject relative to your area. But Suasoria is right; these are only guides relative to nutritional values assuming that you plan to can, preserve, and store. Good as a starting point. Only a few seasons will give you definative answers relative to your storage/consumption capacities. Guess you might say it depends on how much you like carrots. Good luck.

Thanks to you all for info. I think I saw it in the Rodale book. As relative beginners, it gives our family a starting place to discuss how to use our space.

I've never put ANY faith in charts like this. It's like reading handicapping books & thinking you're going to clean up at the races - lol!!!

For instance - pick a vegetable you love & go by the charts - precisely planting the exact amount some nerd decided was appropriate for your family. Alas, your vegetable gets struck down by pestilence or what-have-you.

In my book & what's worked for me is to plant as much space as possible with what we love to eat, leaving a little room for experimental stuff that we might find we love to eat.

No "charts", no calculations or worries, & lots of fun.

I found a chart it Storey's Country Living Encyclepeda and it's been very helpful to me as a baseline. I'm sure once I figure out exactly how much I do eat, if it's enough or too much, I can tweek it but its a great starting point for us newbies. If I had a lot of room for jsut planting tons of things, I'd go that route but I have to make the best of my space...I can't grow 20 tomatoes and have room for anything else if I went that direction.

You can contact your local extension Agency as they have guidelines on how much produce you get from vegetables

I think the amount produced by a certain variety of a vegetable can vary by so much. You know how some tomato plants give you about 2 tomatoes and others give you 2 bushels. It is hard to really find sound advice on the subject- a very biased/opinionated sort of topic. For instance if I wrote a chart like that I would say to grow as many potatoes, onions and peppers as you have room for since those store well and my hub loves them so we never have enough.

I agree with Minnie. But then this year my garden was so lousy that I think it wasn't even worth the water it took to grow it.

DILLWEED, WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR CAN BE FOUND IN THE NEW "BALL BLUE BOOK" AROUND PAGE 15 &/or 16. ONE CHART,ONE THAT SAYS HOW MUCH TO PLANT, YOU WILL HAVE TO DIVIDE IT BY HALF CAUSE IT FOR A FAMILY OF 6. ALSO HAS A SECTION ON HOW MUCH TO ONE HAS TO PUT UP FOR 1 PERSON OR FAMILY OF 4. GOOD LUCK