📏 Garden Row Length For Target Yield Calculator
Enter the harvest weight you're aiming for and your crop to see how many row-feet you need to plant, based on typical per-row-foot yields.
Target divided by yield per foot
The calculator runs a per-row-foot yield backwards from the harvest you want:
row feet = target lbs / lbs per row-footFour crops are stored, and the spread between them is the whole point of the tool:
| Crop | lbs per row-foot | Row feet for 60 lbs |
|---|---|---|
| Tomatoes | 3 | 20.0 ft |
| Carrots | 0.6 | 100.0 ft |
| Green beans | 0.5 | 120.0 ft |
| Lettuce | 0.5 | 120.0 ft |
Sixty pounds of tomatoes is a single 20 ft row; the same weight of beans takes six times the ground. The tomato figure implies a plant roughly every 3 ft, since a good plant carries about 10 lbs.
Turning row feet into a plan
- It is planted row, not bed. The answer counts only the length of the drill itself. Space between rows and paths is on top, so 120 ft of beans might be four 30 ft rows with walking room between them.
- Split anything you cannot eat at once. A hundred feet of lettuce sown on one day bolts on one day. Sow it in short runs a fortnight apart instead.
- Intensive beds beat these figures. The rates assume a single conventional row; wide rows and blocks put more plants over the same ground.
Frequently asked questions
How many feet of green beans do I need for 60 lbs?
About 120 row-feet. Beans are rated here at half a pound per foot of row, the lowest of the four crops along with lettuce.
How many pounds does one foot of garden row produce?
It depends entirely on the crop. This tool uses 3 lbs a foot for tomatoes, 0.6 for carrots and 0.5 for green beans and lettuce.
Does the row length include the space between rows?
No. The figure is the planted row only. Work out how many rows you want to break it into, then add your row spacing and paths to get the bed size.