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- What ideal size should a vegetable garden have per person?
- Garden size depends on the degree of utilization and care
- Vegetable space requirements - This is how much space you need to plan for specific species
- Tips
If you plan properly, you can only eat from your own garden in summer
What ideal size should a vegetable garden have per person?
If you only want to grow a few tomatoes or cucumbers, perhaps strawberries and herbs, you will find space on every little balcony. However, if the vegetable garden serves self-sufficiency, possibly even for a larger family, it must be significantly larger.
Garden size depends on the degree of utilization and care
The minimum size for a "real", colorful vegetable garden is about 10 to 20 square meters, on which about four to eight beds can be created. On the other hand, at least 20 square meters per person will be necessary if the majority of the vegetables required are to come from the garden. If you also strive for lush strawberry or asparagus harvests as well as supplies of potatoes and stored vegetables, the space requirement per household member increases to at least 50 to around 80 square meters - fruit trees are not counted in the process. When it comes to care, you have to spend around 30 minutes per 10 square meters of vegetable area per week - and of course the time needed during planting and harvesting is much higher.
Vegetable space requirements - This is how much space you need to plan for specific species
The following table gives you an overview of how many plants of a certain type of vegetables you plant per square meter and how much yield you can expect in the subsequent harvest. When planning, keep in mind that some vegetables can be harvested multiple times. For this reason, the relevant indication of the expected harvest is not the number of pieces but the weighted yield per square meter. Using this table, you can calculate how big your garden must be, after you have determined the desired vegetables and the number of plants.
Tips
Tomatoes and runner beans produce higher yields on the same area than their bushy awake relatives. Incidentally, this also applies to cucumbers and zucchini that have been applied to trellis aids.