Grow Enough Food for a Family of 4
Plan exactly how much of each vegetable to plant so your garden feeds your family all season long.
Based on: Exactly How Much To Plant for a Family of 4 by Epic Gardening
Plan exactly how much of each vegetable to plant so your garden feeds your family all season long.
Based on: Exactly How Much To Plant for a Family of 4 by Epic Gardening
Have you ever pulled more zucchini out of your garden than you know what to do with, while simultaneously running out of tomatoes by August? Or planted what felt like a reasonable amount of lettuce, only to realize you needed to replant three weeks later because it all bolted at once? If you've ever stood in your garden wondering whether you planted enough — or way too much — you are not alone, and there is actually a simple framework that fixes this problem for good.
Most gardeners guess. They grab a few seed packets, scatter some plants around, and hope for the best. The result is always the same: a feast of one thing, a famine of another, and a nagging feeling that your garden could be doing so much more for your family's dinner table. You're putting in the work, the water, and the weekends — but without a real planting plan, you're leaving a huge amount of food production on the table.
Imagine opening your back door every evening this summer and actually harvesting what you need for dinner. Fresh potatoes roasted on a Tuesday. Cucumber salad on Thursday. A slow-cooked tomato sauce from your own Roma plants on Sunday. No grocery run, no guessing. Just a garden that was sized right from the start, producing exactly what your family eats.
Epic Gardening has built one of the most trusted and practical gardening communities on the internet, and this planting guide comes directly from the expertise of Kevin and Jacques — two experienced growers who have spent years dialing in exactly these numbers. Jacques personally grows 90% of his family's groceries for a family of six on less than a third of an acre using this very approach. This is not theoretical advice. These are real quantities, real yields, and real strategies tested in actual gardens.
This checklist takes everything covered in the Epic Gardening video and puts it into a clean, ready-to-use action plan. Every crop is broken out with the exact number of plants to grow, expected yield ranges, spacing guidance, succession planting timing, and variety suggestions — so you never have to pause a video and scribble notes again. Work through it once before your next planting day, and your garden will finally be sized to actually feed your family.
Every checklist item comes with actionable notes to guide you — things like "Don't forget to do this before you start," "Avoid this common mistake," or "Set a reminder for 30 days out." Nothing vague, just clear next steps.
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