Garden Harvest Estimator — Free Tool | Frame It All
Free for Gardeners
How much will your
garden actually produce?
Enter your Frame It All bed sizes, choose your crops, and get realistic harvest estimates — pounds per week, first-harvest timelines, grocery value, and a week-by-week harvest calendar.
Your bed setup
Choose your Frame It All bed size and total growing area.
Total growing area: 16 sq ft (1 bed × 16 sq ft each)
Select your crops
Choose what you're planting. Then set what percentage of your bed each gets.
Tomatoes
5.5 lb/sq ft
Cherry tomatoes
7 lb/sq ft
Cucumbers
4.5 lb/sq ft
Peppers
3 lb/sq ft
Lettuce / greens
1.8 lb/sq ft
Kale / chard
2 lb/sq ft
Beans (bush)
1.5 lb/sq ft
Beans (pole)
3 lb/sq ft
Zucchini / squash
3.5 lb/sq ft
Carrots
1.6 lb/sq ft
Strawberries
1.2 lb/sq ft
Herbs (mixed)
0.8 lb/sq ft
Broccoli
0.9 lb/sq ft
Spinach
1.4 lb/sq ft
Peas (snap)
0.8 lb/sq ft
Space allocation
100% allocated
Tomatoes
50%
32 sq ft
Lettuce / greens
50%
32 sq ft
Season estimate
Your harvest
Crop-by-crop breakdown
Per season, from your specific bed area and growing conditions.
| Crop | Sq ft | Est. lbs/season | Weekly at peak | Days to first harvest | Grocery value |
|---|
Harvest timeline
When to expect your first harvests, based on Zone 7 planting in early spring.
Boost your yield
Products matched to your crops that meaningfully increase production.
Reference
Crop yield data
Yield estimates for raised-bed square foot gardening based on university extension research and Frame It All bed dimensions. All figures assume good FIA soil mix, consistent watering, and adequate sun.
| Crop | Plants / sq ft | Lbs / sq ft / season | Days to harvest | In a 4×4 (16 sq ft) | In an 8×8 (64 sq ft) | In a 12×12 (144 sq ft) | Vertical trellis? |
|---|
Why raised beds yield more
Frame It All raised beds with FIA-recommended soil mix (40% topsoil, 40% compost, 20% perlite) produce 1.5–2× the yield of in-ground row gardens of the same area. No soil compaction, superior drainage, intensive square-foot spacing, and earlier spring warmup are the key factors. The yield data above assumes raised-bed intensive spacing, not traditional row spacing.
Highest yield per sq ft
Best crops for small spaces.
🍒
#1
Cherry tomatoes
7 lbs/sq ft
🍅
#2
Tomatoes
5.5 lbs/sq ft
🥒
#3
Cucumbers
4.5 lbs/sq ft
🥦
#4
Zucchini / squash
3.5 lbs/sq ft
🫑
#5
Peppers
3 lbs/sq ft
Best value vs grocery store
Most expensive to buy, cheapest to grow.
🌾
$12/lb
Herbs (mixed)
~$12.00/lb at store
🍓
$4.5/lb
Strawberries
~$4.50/lb at store
🍒
$4/lb
Cherry tomatoes
~$4.00/lb at store
🍀
$4/lb
Spinach
~$4.00/lb at store
🥬
$3.5/lb
Lettuce / greens
~$3.50/lb at store
Increase your harvest
Grow more from the same beds
Four proven strategies — all supported by Frame It All products — that can significantly increase what you harvest from your current space.
+40% yield
Veggie Wall Trellis
Grow tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans, and snap peas vertically. Uses zero horizontal space — plants climb the trellis wall inside the barrier. Stack multiple kits for taller crops.
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+8 weeks
Cold Frame Greenhouse
Extends your season by 6–8 weeks on both ends. Start in February, harvest into December. In Zone 7, that's nearly year-round growing for leafy greens and herbs.
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Protect yield
Stack & Extend Animal Barrier
Rabbits, deer, and other animals can wipe out a season's work overnight. The Animal Barrier installs directly on your raised bed with no extra hardware — keeping pests out without sacrificing access.
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Consistent water
DIG Drip Irrigation Kit
Inconsistent watering is the #1 cause of yield loss in home gardens. Drip delivers even moisture directly to root zones — critical for tomatoes, peppers, and fruiting crops.
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Succession planting — the single biggest yield multiplier
Most gardeners plant once. The highest-yielding gardeners plant three times.
What succession planting means
Instead of planting all your lettuce or beans at once and getting a massive harvest you can't eat, stagger plantings every 2–3 weeks. This gives you a continuous steady harvest from the same space rather than a single glut. Combined with a Frame It All cold frame to start early and finish late, succession planting can effectively triple the output of any bed in a season.
| Crop | Succession interval | Plantings / season | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥬Lettuce / greens | Every 2–3 weeks | 4–6 plantings | Continuous harvest March–November |
| 🥕Carrots / radishes | Every 3 weeks | 3–4 plantings | Steady root harvest all season |
| 🫘Bush beans | Every 3 weeks | 3 plantings | Beans available June through September |
| 🌿Herbs (cilantro, dill) | Every 3 weeks | 4 plantings | Prevents bolting, continuous harvest |
| 🥦Broccoli | Spring + fall | 2 plantings | Two full harvests in one season |