Do seed banks and vaults qualify as high calorie gardening?

High calorie gardening is about staple crops. So I would like to give you my take on seed banks or vaults that are being sold on the internet.

Here are two charts you can use to rough estimate different seed banks and seed vaults to see how they rank for calories. I depend on charts such as these as I designed my high calorie gardening over the years.

Direct Seeded Vegetable Crops by Johnny Seeds

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/assets/information/vegetablecharts.pdf

Nichols Garden Nursery Planting Chart

https://www.nicholsgardennursery.com/store/avactis-images/u/PLANTINGCHARG.pdf

Below are the contents of a popular lower cost small seed bank which I will not name.

The seeds are good quality and of popular varieties so they are not selling a bunch of junk.

In fact this is not a bad start for a victory garden. But how does it rank for high calorie gardening?

Blue Lake Bush Bean - over 150 heirloom seeds

May require an inoculate for good yield.

1-2 LB per 100' row

80-120 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 3-5 LB

31 calories per cup of cut green beans.

California Wonder Bell Pepper - over 70 heirloom seeds

An excellent green bell pepper of nice size and very good yield very popular.

0.13 once per 100' row

4500 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 5-18 LB

18 calories per cup of cut bell peppers.

Marketmore Cucumber - over 150 heirloom seeds

0.5 to 1.0 once per 100' row

700 to 850 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 8-10 LB

16 calories per cup of cut cucumber.

Scarlet Nantes Carrot - over 800 heirloom seeds

0.5 once per 100' row

18500 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 7-10 LB

45 calories per cup of cut carrots.

Parris Island Cos Romaine Lettuce - over 900 seeds

0.5 per 100' row

31000 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 2-4 LB

8 calories per cup of shredded lettuce.

Golden Acre Cabbage - over 530 heirloom seeds

0.5 ounce per 100' row

8500-9000 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 10-25 LB

17 calories per cup of shredded cabbage.

Detroit Dark Red Beet - over 260 heirloom seeds

1 to 2 once per 100' row

1500-2000 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 8-10 LB

59 calories per cup

Lincoln Shell Sweet Pea - over 100 heirloom seeds

1-2 pounds per 100' row

125 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 2-6 LB

118 calories per cup

Black Turtle Bean - over 70 heirloom seeds

0.5 to 1 pound per 100' row

80-120 seeds per once

Yield per 100 feet around 8 pound of shelled beans.

624 calories per cup

Beefsteak Tomato - over 180 heirloom seeds

0.13 OZ -0.25 OZ per 100' row

11500 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 15-45 LB

45 calories per cup

Champion Radish - over 320 heirloom seeds

1 OZ per 100' row

3125 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 3 LB

18 calories per cup

Green Sprouting Broccoli - over 500 heirloom seeds

0.5 OZ per 100' row

6000-9000 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 4-6 LB

31 calories per cup

Waltham Butternut Winter Squash - over 100 seeds

0.5 OZ -1 OZ per 100' row

150-200 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 10-80 LB

40 calories per cup

Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach - over 260 seeds

1 OZ per 100' row

2500 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 2 - 3 LB

7 calories per cup

Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion - over 145 heirloom seeds

1 OZ per 100' row

7000 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 3 - 5 LB

46 calories per cup sliced

Stowell's Evergreen Sweet Corn - over 250 heirloom seeds

.5 TO .75 LB per 100' row

125-130 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 7-10 LB

132 calories per cup of kernels

Hales Best Cantaloupe - over 70 heirloom seeds

0.5 - 1 OZ per 100' row

1200 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 15-25 LB

53 calories per cup diced

Snowball Cauliflower - over 285 heirloom seeds

0.25 OZ per 100' row

5500-10000 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 8-10 LB

27 calories per cup

Black Beauty Zucchini - over 50 heirloom seeds

0.5 OZ TO 1 OZ per 100' row

250 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 20-80 LB

19 calories per cup

Crimson Sweet Watermelon - over 60 heirloom seeds

1 OZ per 100' row

500-800 seeds per once

Yield per 10 feet 8-40 LB

47 calories per cup

Depending on lifestyle, it is recommended that people consume around 2000 calories/day. The numbers above also assume ideal conditions and to not take into account losses from disease, insects, and weather. Actual yields could be considerably less. This is one reason the high calorie gardening tries to use different plant families to reduce overall losses due to a disease, insect, or weather event. So when you plan your high calorie garden map out your crops as I have done and assume a percentage failure based on history of crops from your local community gardens and garden clubs. Also remember that calories do not count until they are consumed so processing and storage are also important.