If you have the time and resources, I suggest keeping detailed logs of everything going on in the garden- what is planted where, when, how, management practices, irrigation times and amounts, weather, etc., and then weigh your produce at harvest time. That should provide you with the needed production, area, and yield (PAY) data that you need. The amount will also vary based upon what is being planted where. If you have students or stats/math geeks use it as an opportunity for them to develop their stats skills.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Perez, Manuel <[email protected]>wrote: > This came out in 2009 from a study conducted by the National Gardening > Association. > > A well maintained food garden can yield an estimated 1 to 2 pounds of > produce per square foot of garden area over the course of the growing > season. The average 600 square foot food garden can produce an estimated > 300 pounds of fresh produce worth $600 and a return of $530 base on an > average investment of $70. > > > > Manuel Perez > City of San José > Community Gardens Program > 200 E. Santa Clara St. > 9th Floor Tower > San José, CA 95113 > Ph: (408) 793-5533 > Fx: (408) 292-6416 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Community_garden [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan > Finlayson > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Community_garden] pounds of produce per square foot? > > Hello, All: > > I was wondering if anyone is aware of a calculator program for estimating > the amount of food that is grown on a given area of garden during a growing > season? I realize that this is extremely variable, depending on the type > of crop grown, the number of harvests, management practices, etc.... but > perhaps there is an easy calculator that uses averages and also lets you > factor in some of these variables? > > The purpose would be to help us estimate the amount of food (in pounds) > that are likely harvested across all of the community gardens that we work > with. I'm sure someone else out there has wrestled with trying to figure > out something like this... > > Cheers, > Susan > > > > -- > Susan Finlayson > Community Gardens Program Director > Wasatch Community Gardens > 824 S. 400 W., Suite 127 > Salt Lake City, UT 84101 > www.wasatchgardens.org > (801) 359-2658 x12 > "Empowering people of all ages and incomes to grow and eat healthy, > organic, local food." > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131031/6477a060/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to > find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to > find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20131102/61efb4a1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
