COOPERATIVE KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY FACT SHEET

Information about the Kentucky State University Cooperative Extension Program 2021

Determining Your Seed and Transplant Needs for the Growing Season

Dr. Leigh Whittinghill, Assistant Professor of Organic Agriculture

This worksheet is designed to help you determine how much seed and how many transplants you will need for your farm or garden. The following instructions and table will help you gather the information you need to calculate how much seed to purchase and how many transplants to purchase or grow.

  1. Enter each crop you plan to grow in the following table. These crops should match the crops you have outlined in your planting calendar and/or farm or garden map.
  2. Enter the area you expect to grow each crop in the following table.
  3. This should be the total area throughout the growing season. If you plan to stagger harvests, or have more than one crop of something, add together the growing areas for each time you plant a crop.
  4. Depending on how you plan to grow, your growing area will be calculated differently.
  5. If you are growing in rows, this should be calculated in row feet
  6. If you are using intensive gardening practices that do not include traditional rows, such as biointensive, square foot gardening, or SPIN farming, it will be calculated in square feet.
  7. Find and record the plant spacing in the following table