[Arid_gardener] Seeds: how many?

[Carolyn Stoffel]

I am planting veggies for, effectively, the first time in my life. I
asked this question on another list as well as at a garden club meeting
last night but still don't know the answers.

I'm single and live alone. I don't know how many seeds to plant because
I don't know how much each seed will produce.

I have:

Snow peas
Beets
Cherry tomatoes
Watermelon (icebox)
Spaghetti squash
Pumpkins "single serve"
Sunflowers
"Green" peppers (multi-color)
Cantaloupe

I planted 32 beets and two snow peas late last week and have bed space
for some successive plantings (but not a lot and I can't build more -
the cast is off my wrist but it certainly isn't up to moving concrete
block around; the doctor said I could lift ten pounds but I am very
aware at one pound). I don't have bed space for the spring and summer
varieties.

(Any volunteers? I don't think it would take more than an hour or so to
pick up the block - about three miles - stack it leaving an open square,
and partially fill it with poor compost - which was soft enough for me
to dig with one hand.)

Carolyn Stoffel