3.1 YIELDS AND GROWING CONDITIONS Growing your food produce at home can be a daunting task and will require some trial and error to come to a complete conclusion on how, where, and when to plant certain produce. The site offers copious amounts of northern sunlight, thus simplifying the “where” question posed earlier. Looking at when and how to plant, a combination of online resources re compiled into one growing guide for the year to feed the maximum population of the new proposed residential scheme. Amounts of vegetables grown to feed a family of four re used as a baseline to then multiply out to the people of the site. According to (bestpickreports. com, 2021), ather and climate play an intimate role in the cultivation process, and they recommend various solutions to control the climate of your garden to have a more stable yield every harvest, as ll as a few ways in which you can preserve harvests. These solutions are stated as having a climate-controlled zone to move produce to if the exterior climate suddenly becomes unsuitable and endangers the crops. The site will feature a greenhouse to combat these unwanted climates. The research consulted other online sources to identify planting and growing times and the space required for each specific food crop. The results of these sources re also compiled into the growing guide table, as seen below.
PLANTS PER m2 *USING GROWING TABLE TO DETERMINE GROWING AREA NEEDED AREA NEEDED: 410,25m2 PLANTS NEEDED: 6 332 Plants PLANTS PER m2: 15,43 (15 Plants per m2)
Figure 14 (top right): Spatial and growing conditions for a family of four applied to the project user requirements [author, 2021] Figure 15 (bottom right): Impact of using three-dimensional space for farming as opposed to horizontal traditional farming methods and yields [author, 2021]
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