Shirley Bovshow is giving helpful gardening tips on how to plant and grow the right amount of vegetables for your family.
- Grow 2 plants per person in the family.
- 30 – 50 tomatoes from two plants.
- Tomatoes range in size and weight depending on variety and can yield from 10 to 20lbs of fruit per plant.
- If you plan to can the vegetables get up to eight plants for a family of 4. You will need 1 dozen tomatoes per jar for canning.
- It takes approx. 2.5 lbs. of tomatoes per QUART of canned tomatoes, so calculate how many quarts of tomatoes you buy.
- Grow 1 to 2 plants per person or 4 to 8 plants for a family of four. One squash plant will grow one dozen squash.
- Each squash plant can produce 3 to 9 lbs. of squash.
- Grow 1- 2 plants per person or 4 to 8 plants for family of four.
- Each plant grows approximately 10, 6-ounce cucumbers per plant. Grow more than this for pickling cucumbers
