Crop Reference Chart: Crop Planning
Key: DS - direct seeded | DTM - days to maturity | TP - transplanted
Guidelines For Use
These files are produced by the Urban Farm and are intended to be free and shared widely; they should not be altered, used for resale, or shared without proper credit.
This chart is developed for biointensive crop production in a rooftop market garden setting and is a living document that will be updated continually.
This information is based on data from seed producers like Johnny's Seeds (USA), William Dam Seeds (ON) and COG's Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers.
The Urban Farm uses a standard bed width of 30" wide, with 18" paths. In this chart, a bed ft refers to one ft of a 30" bed.
Harvest windows are based on the Urban Farm's previous harvest records of produce grown on a 5th-storey rooftop farm in downtown Toronto, Canada and reflect techniques including "cut and come again" and crop removal for succession planting.
Projected yield is averaged from the Urban Farm's 2018 and 2019 yields, and checked with reference to COG's Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers.
For Days To Maturity (DTM) and Days in Greenhouse, numbers are rounded to 7 (i.e. to the nearest week); expect to add/subtract a week in cold/hot weather.
Crop values are shown in Canadian dollars; they reflect the 2021 growing season and may fluctuate seasonally depending on factors including inflation, etc.