Ideas on yield?

[Bettacreek]

Alright, I THINK I have my garden planned out. Finally. My rows are 15ft long. Can anyone please give some input on about how much I will get from each plant? I'm looking for pint amounts of banana peppers (canned in rings), tomatoes (about half sauce, a quarter crushed and a quarter chunked), green beans. The other stuff, I'm not quite as worried about, as it'll be frozen or eaten fresh...
4 rows Banana Peppers 12" apart
4 rows Roma tomatoes 18" apart
2 rows green beans (bush) 4" apart

1 row lettuce 12" apart
1 row Bell peppers 12" apart
1/2 row Spinach 4" apart
1/2 row onions 4" apart

I also plan to plant a sugarbaby plant or two in there somewhere (probably taking up part of the onion portion of the row.

Anyways, any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Wannabefree]

Now these estimates are JUST IME...

Banana peppers will/should be about 2 pints per plant.

Romas, maybe a little more 3-4 pints per plant.

green beans...more difficult to gauge, but i think I can safely say you could get a pint per plant. Pole beans do much better. Bush tend to crap out a LOT faster.

lettuce, no clue really

bell peppers, depending on the health of the plants, could be a LOT. I had some one year that we had 8 plants, and I was begging people to take some peppers, another year, not much of anything, so.....I basically dunno, but I expect they will do pretty well, just not sure on the per plant ammount.

Not really much clue on the spinach and onions either.

I hope that helps somewhat. Of course the right fertilize at the right time, keeping it weeded, rain and or supplemental watering and other factors will cause variations. But I think you will have a good bit of production out of that little spot I hope so!

 

[Bettacreek]

That's awesome! I hope you're right! Even if I get 1pt per plant of everything I plan to can, I'll be one happy camper. In fact, it looks like I might be SICK of canning before the season is over. Hopefully I'll have my groove back by hunting season and get a deer or two to can. Hopefully, I'll have enough to give some to family, and possibly to last me two years, so I can maybe grow some other crops next year. I guess we'll see.

 

[Denim Deb]

Normally, from each onion, you'll get one.

 

[Bettacreek]

Normally, from each onion, you'll get one.

LOL! Yeah, the bottom group of plants were more just to get an idea if anyone thinks it'd be enough, lol. George goes through more onions than I do, but I've recently started using them for cooking more, and boy does it really crank up the flavor! I've used them like to top burgers and such, and stir-fry type things, but never added fresh stuff (besides shrooms) to sauces and such, and SHABAM, what flavor! Anyways, the onions should be enough for our little family, even if I chop some up to use in the sauces before canning them.

 

[Wannabefree]

That ammount of onions would only last me about 2 weeks

 

[Bettacreek]

Looking at it, I should be able to do one more row of spinach/onions. I'll probably do a row of each then, if at all possible, I hope to do some spinach at different intervals, since I plan to whack it back when it's still in baby leaves. I might even be able to trim that down to half a row of baby spinach, then I have a half row to do something else in. I just wish there was a better way to store spinach and lettuce... $1.68 for a head of romaine and $3.99 for a 12oz bag of baby spinach is INSANE! After getting the garden going, I'm NOT going to want to pay those prices again. I'm thinking about maybe doing a few potted plants for that though, to keep up winter production.

I'm planning on saving all of the little flats from this year, so that I can start my own plants from seed next year, thus saving almost $60!


ETA: I'm thinking that if I can get that many pints out of a tomato plant, that I might change one of those rows into another row of banana peppers. Hrmmm.

 

[Denim Deb]

If you want more onions, don't plant them in a row perse, but instead, plant them along side of the tomatoes. That's how I normally do it. I still leave the same spacing between the tomatoes and whatever I have planted next to them, and it works fine.

 

[Bettacreek]

Can you clarify a little for me? Do you plant them in between the tomato plants? Sorry, no sleep (insomnia, again) so my brain is a tad foggy.

 

[Denim Deb]

When I plant tomatoes, I plant a total of 4 rows. They're planted as double rows, w/the tomatoes planted 18" apart in the rows. So, each double row is 3' wide. At the edge of the row, I plant my onions. Normally, I do my onions completely around this double row, so I have 2 rows of onions that are how ever long I make my row (in your case, it would be 15 ft, then along the top and the bottom. In your case, if you planted along side of your tomatoes, it would be 2 rows that are 15' long, and 2 rows that are 18" long. Or, you could say that you plant 2 rows of onions that are 18" apart, and you have tomatoes planted in between them. Does that make sense? (I didn't get enough sleep last night either, so we're a good pair!)

ETA: For your sugar baby, if you can rig up some kind of trellis, you can grow them vertically and take up less room.