Soilworks Grow Guide
The complete reference for growing all the food two adults need — full nutritional coverage, a calorie base, and a no-replanting perennial system built on heirloom and legacy plant varieties. The Grow Guide is the open content layer of the Soilworks Garden Workbench — a freemium suite of planning tools that runs on top of these numbers.
Three Goals
Full Nutritional Specifications
Daily and yearly targets for every macro, vitamin, and mineral for one man and one woman. Identifies the hardest nutrients to source from a garden.
Annual Garden Plan
All the crops you replant each year to hit calorie and nutrient targets. Includes space requirements, yields, and a preservation strategy.
Perennial Garden Plan
Plant it once. Harvest for decades. Trees, shrubs, and perennial vegetables using heirloom and legacy varieties for maximum nutrient density.
Supporting Resources
Grow Calendar
Month-by-month planting and harvest schedule for every crop in the guide — annuals and perennials — with monthly task summaries.
Companion Planting
Symbiosis-based planting guilds, nitrogen fixers, dynamic accumulators, pest control through planting, and combinations to avoid.
Soil, Seeds & Animals
Crop rotation, seed saving, succession planting, soil building, and animal integration to close every nutritional gap.
Propagation
Seed starting schedules, cold stratification, scarification, cuttings, division, layering, and grafting for every plant in the guide.
Recipes
Old-world recipes built around the guide's crops — staple dishes, preservation and fermentation, and perennial crop cooking.
Herbs
Culinary, medicinal, and companion roles for every herb in the guide, plus teas, oxymels, infused oils, and simple preparations.
How This Guide Works
Start with Goal 1 to understand exactly what the body needs. Then use Goal 2 for a traditional vegetable garden that covers those needs each season. For a lower-maintenance, no-replant system, build the Goal 3 perennial garden alongside or instead.
Use the Grow Calendar to know what to do each month, and Companion Planting to design a system where plants support each other — fixing nitrogen, repelling pests, and attracting beneficial insects.