Lot Size of Alotted Rental Vegetable Garden Suitable to Self-support for Urban Residents

Abstract

It is espected that the ‘alloted rental vegetable garden’ will spread and will raise various types with establishment of alotted Vegetable Garden Law for a background. But to promote such a tendency, we have many technical problems to be solved on planning. One of major problems is to give upper limit of lot size. For, the purpose of this garden is to fill self-consumption of vegetables, so the upper limit of the lot size must be given as to coinside such a condition.
In this paper, estimation on upper limit of lot size were tried by a case study on Saitama Prefecture, on the result of planting acreage investigation of vegetable garden for self-consumption in Hino-town Shiga-prefecture. And following sugestions ware made, it shood be given about 50 m²/man and 150 m²/family as maximum size of planting area of alloted rental vegetable garden lot.