Sunflowers are a versatile and low-maintenance plant that can be planted in various ways. Closely planted sunflowers can grow tall and lanky, but tall lanky sunflowers may require more space for each plant to receive adequate sunlight. For single stem sunflowers, planting them close together can result in taller stalks but smaller heads. If you want smaller blooms, you can plant multiple seeds and thin them to the strongest contenders when the plants are six inches tall.
Sunflowers are known for their towering height and large blooms, but short blooms can be caused by factors such as planting too close together or not providing enough space for them to grow. To avoid this, it is recommended to plant standard-sized sunflowers. Planting closer may result in taller stalks but smaller heads, while planting farther apart may result in larger seed heads that may be too heavy for the stalk to bear.
If you have limited space, sowing in a small clump that will eventually be thinned to one plant is recommended. If you still have the seed packet, it is recommended to spread them out soon. When planting sunflowers too closely, they may compete for resources like sunlight, water, and nutrients, resulting in stunted growth. Sunflowers emit toxic compounds that impede the growth of some plants around them.
Floral farmers report that the closer you plant together, the more compact the flowerheads may be. Both may struggle if planted too close to each other. The alternate-leaning pattern only happens when the sunflowers are planted very close together. Plants spaced farther apart produce weaker stems and may not produce as many flowers as those planted closer together.
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Do sunflowers need a lot of root space?
Sunflowers require ample space due to their long roots, so they should be planted in a well-draining, loose area. They should be planted in a 2 feet deep, 3 feet wide flower bed. Sunflowers prefer alkaline soil (pH 6. 0 to 7. 5) and are heavy feeders, so nutrient-rich soil is essential. Ensure the soil is weed-free before planting. Sunflowers are tough plants, so they can thrive in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged.
What is the best row spacing for sunflowers?
The optimal spacing for sunflowers is 45 cm, but this is rarely used due to practical reasons. A 60 cm spacing is a good compromise, and avoid an 80 cm spacing as it can cause insufficient ground cover. Sunflowers are adaptable to changing weather conditions and can mine moisture and soil nutrients at depth due to their unique root system. Proper sowing methods can optimize yields, and planting early is recommended, as sunflowers can withstand temperatures of -5°C to -7°C at the cotyledon stage.
Do sunflowers need spacing?
To ensure successful germination of sunflowers, maintain consistent spacing of 6-12 inches (15-30 cm) for shorter and taller cultivars, and provide at least 2 feet of distance between the rows. After 10-12 days, remove extra seedlings to create a spacing of 8 inches (20 cm) between flowers in a row. Cover the ground with 3-4 inches of mulch after planting, as young plants are most vulnerable to water loss and weed development. Consistent watering after planting is essential for successful germination, as fluctuations in water availability throughout the growing season can cause water stress and yield loss.
Do sunflowers multiply on their own?
Sunflowers, a low-maintenance and drought-tolerant plant, can grow up to nearly 10 feet tall and are heliotropic, meaning they grow with their face facing the sun and return to an easterly position at night. They are a pseudanthium, or flowerhead, consisting of many small flowers, including ray flowers and disk flowers. These flowers mature into sunflower seeds when pollinated by bees. Sunflowers are not invasive in all areas but can spread if left unchecked.
They are susceptible to strong winds and should be grown in areas with adequate weather protection. Sunflower care involves providing them with plenty of daily sunlight, drainage, and loose soil. Sunflowers need fertile, nutrient-rich soil that is not wet, and protective netting or cages can help avoid pests like squirrels and rabbits. Sunflowers are also susceptible to wildlife that enjoy eating them, so it is essential to provide them with the necessary support and care.
Can you plant sunflowers close to each other?
Sunflowers can be sown directly into the ground, ensuring a weed-free space. Rake the soil to a fine tilth and make 12mm deep drills, leaving a 10cm space between each seed. Place the seeds carefully, cover them with soil, and water gently. Thin the plants out to 45cm apart, leaving the strongest ones. Be cautious of slugs and snails that may eat the new shoots. Protect the seedlings by cutting the top off a plastic bottle and placing it over them.
As the sunflower grows taller, support the stem by placing a cane near the stem and loosely tying it to the plant with string. In dry weather, give the plant a good watering. Watch your sunflower grow and enjoy its beauty. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity, aiming to enrich everyone’s life through plants.
Do sunflowers turn against the sun?
Sunflowers use a unique mechanism to follow the sun, unlike previously thought. The study by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published in PLOS Biology, reveals that sunflowers use a different mechanism than previously thought. Sunflowers’ heliotropism, the ability to follow the sun, is based on a different mechanism than previously thought, which is governed by a molecule called phototropin and responds to light at the blue end of the spectrum. This discovery was surprising for the researchers.
Are sunflowers sensitive to transplant?
To sow sunflowers indoors, use a lightweight seed-starting mix and sow 2-3 seeds per pot, ¼”–½” deep. Sunflowers have a long taproot, making direct sowing the recommended method. However, sowing in 3-4″ biodegradable paper pots can minimize root disturbance. Thin to one plant once leaves appear, focusing on thick, strong stems and deep color. This helps minimize crowding and the negative impact of stretching for light. Transplanted sunflowers are usually less vigorous than direct-sown sunflowers. For more indoor sowing tips, refer to more indoor sowing tips.
Do sunflowers need to be separated?
Sunflowers can be started indoors in spring 4 weeks before the last frost date, but they won’t grow as fast and strong as those directly sown in the garden. Transplants are a good option for small-space gardeners, container gardeners, and those planting dwarf sunflowers with less aggressive root systems. Annual sunflower varieties aren’t divided, but perennial sunflowers should be divided every 2 to 3 years to keep them vigorous. In spring, dig up the sunflower plant and divide it into 1 to 2 foot diameter sections with a good root system and stalks. Replant in a full-sun location on fertile, well-drained soil.
Pests and diseases are the biggest threats to sunflowers, with rabbits, deer, and wood chucks being the biggest pests. To prevent damage, place 3 ft tall wire fencing with small holes around the sunflower row or clumps, plant sunflowers in a 7 ft fenced area, or use repellent sprays with active ingredients. Protect seeds and young plantings with a floating row cover. Cut worms can also attack sunflower seedlings, so cultivate around the patch with a garden hoe in spring.
Can I regrow cut sunflowers?
When harvesting single stem sunflowers, cut towards the base of the flower while leaving enough stem in the ground for replanting. White Nite varieties have more fragile blooms than ProCut varieties. Harvest sunflowers as soon as petals start to lift from the center disc, as fully open sunflowers may shorten vase life. Use sharp pruners or snips to cut stems, and remove the bottom three-fourths of leaves from the stem and place them in a clean bucket. Avoid removing the stem and leaves from the stem.
Can sunflowers get too much sun?
The common sunflower, a species of great botanical significance, is susceptible to wilting as a result of prolonged exposure to elevated temperatures and ultraviolet radiation during the summer months. To prevent excessive heat, it may be beneficial to cover the plants with a green shaded net, particularly during the summer months, in order to protect the leaves and flowers.
How many sunflowers can be on one plant?
Big Smile is an early flowering variety with 4-5″ yellow petals and a brown center, growing 12-18″ tall. Choco Sun is a classic sunflower with 10-12″ tall plants, Firecracker is a lovely red and gold flower with a brown center, and Paquito Colorado Mix is a bushy, floriferous plant with yellow to rusty bronze petals. Solita is a large 6″ golden-yellow, pollenless flower with pale centers on 14″ tall plants, and Sunsation is a pollenless, 12-15″ tall classic yellow flower with brown centers.
Teddy Bear is a unique, fully double, cushion-like flower with 4-5″ golden flowers. Cut flower varieties come in a wide array of colors and forms, with multi-stemmed, 4-6″ flowers and multiple flowers per branch. ‘Moulin Rouge’ is a velvety dark burgundy flower with dark cocoa centers, ideal for floral arrangements and growing 5-7′ tall.
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We just planted 25 different packs of seeds totaling 6000+ seeds, in 48 square feet, and didn’t care about spacing at all. Let’s find …
I do this all the time when I have too many seeds. Survival of the fittest happens. It’s cool to watch them outgrow one another and compete for resources. Also the diversity is great for lowering the risk of pest & diseases. I even let the winners re-seed themselves since they do well in those areas. Looking forward to seeing your results! -Brit
I tried this with radishes, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and kohlrabi; the kohlrabi did great and so did the carrots but the radishes, all i got was long skinny roots with no bulbs! The lettuce was kind of hit or miss yet the cabbage did great. Im in NE Indiana, about 30 mins south of Coldwater MI. or 90 mins south of Lansing MI. EITHER WAY A FALL GARDEN IS where i get the most productivity! I planted early cabbage, brocolli and cauliflower; they produced yet,not great. My fall harvest is WAY ABOVE AND BEYOND what i EVER expected! I am beyond grateful that YOU have shown me that a FALL garden is better than a spring garden. I never would have thought this as i was showed how to garden from my grandparents (Grandma just turned 92) and i showed her you’re tapping the tomato flower articles and she has been absolutley amazed with the results! She is 92 like i said and she got over 40lbs of tomatoes off of one beefsteak which she juiced by hand and canned with a recipie from 1932 that her mom passed down (which i use, no seperation) and it also made a great paste/base if boiled down. I hope you keep this website going for a VERY LONG TIME! THANK YOU LUKE AND MRS. MI GARDENER for the great articles and input for us northern gardeners!!!
I’ve done this with the combination of leaf lettuces, miner’s lettuce, mache, scallions, radishes, beets and carrots and it worked so well. I left some of it to go to seed and was amazed at how much had reseeded and come up the next year too. Not only productive but it was also a beautiful garden as well. Awesome idea, and I love your polyculture mix! Thumbs up!!
I love that you are doing this because I am new to gardening and have been experimenting (read: because I’m lazy) and I figured that nature doesn’t space, seeds fall where they do. So I threw a bunch of seeds in and am perusal them sprout. When I see some blank spaces I threw some more seeds in. I can’t wait to see what happens!
I don’t worry about spacing, I let volunteers grow where they may, they are all brothers and sisters and take care of each other !!!! I got exhausted spacing, spacing, spacing ; to the point of SPACING OUT !!!! Thanks for making this great YouTube article !!!! I believe IT’S possible to grow 4 fruit trees spaced very close together, to increase OUT put by 300 % !!!! Any comments on this IDEA !!!!???? It’s ok if the branches grow into each other, I believe, has anyone ever tried this IDEA !!!!????
I lost my glasses during spring planting and dug under what i had just planted to find the glasses so i ended up with seeds everywhere. The glasses turned out to be on top of a totally different bed but I actually did have a very plentiful harvest. It was lettuce, onions and radishes. The onions were easy to see but i ended up with a living mulch. Or what others call a wide row with the onions as space markers.
A lucky packet bed. I did this last year and only got Cherrie tomatoes and celery to harvest at first, but when the Cherrie tomatoes were finished I found 2 Bell pepper plants below, and both these bell pepper plants gave me 2 bell peppers each. This year I am going to give each pepper plant its own space and a lot of sun and see how many bell peppers I get. By the way, the 2 Bell Pepper plants are still in the bed and I am hoping they will kick start with new growth this Spring. Very excited for your Lucky Packet Bed.
This is so fascinating! I can’t wait to see how this turns out. Experimentation is one of the greatest ways to learn after all. I once planted a few rows of pak choy from seed literally in lines just to see what happened and most of the plants grew to shoot but didn’t thrive or proceed into nice big leafy plants. I neglected that patch of the garden for a few months and what happened was most of the plants died off but the few that survived then had to space to get strong and they ended up HUGE.
Fun article! I jave another fun thing to try in the garden. About the tomatoes in the compost… my grandmother never caged her tomatoes, she allows them to grow and hang down to touch the ground and root on the vines. The root on the vine allows nutrients to get to the fruit faster and not be lost to the trunk of the plant.If u prune the sucker’s and don’t let it root anymore after the plant start to put on fruit u will get a bigger more bountiful harvest.
one year my seeds got wet. I left the container outside and it rained. that seldom happens here in the desert. well I must say that 4×8 raised bed produced so much food. it was fun to see it all come up. I had alot of cucumbers and squash that grew so I dealt with powdery mildew. still it was a fun project to see what germinated. I hope you update regularly. I anxious to see. love your website.
I did the same thing this year when I discovered that seeds from different packets had fallen at the bottom of my seed container. Not knowing what some were and not wanting to separate them all, I just planted them all in a box and surprise, surprise…I had dill, mustard and lettuce. About your area and it’s fertility…I used to live a couple hours away, in London, Ontario. Gardening was amazing there! Everything grew in my compost heap: tomatoes, cucumbers, cantaloupe, My basil was knee high, it was fertile there!I never needed to water either. Then I moved to Regina, Saskatchewan: bone dry and hot. I should’ve just grown wheat. Then on to Calgary, Alberta…brrr, beautiful daytime temperatures but nighttime goes down to 42 F. It’s the mountains. My basil had 3 leaves…all summer, lol Spinach was great though…it even survived the winter with a blanket of snow and I ate it in the spring. Lettuce, good; tomatoes, not so great; raspberries, beautiful! . Most people there have a greenhouse. I’m in Manitoba now, extremely windy and dry most times but with all the tips I’ve been getting from you I still manage to improve my gardening skills and adapt…but I’d still like to move back to Ontario, lol Thank you so much for all your shared knowledge! 💖
I did this in the spring. I had a bunch of old seed packets of stuff like herbs, lettuce, spinach, kale, Napa cabbage, collards, green onions, chives, peas, Claytonia, etc. My mix was very similar to yours. I just sprinkled them over a prepared bed and let them do their thing. I didn’t get much out of it, but we had to move before it was really time to harvest. Things DID grow pretty well. The bed was absolutely full of stuff. Just nothing big enough to really harvest.
I’m a seed pack junky. I just mixed a good 125-150 packs of old stuff. It’s in a container and it’s about 1 inch deep and 6″ x 4 “. Have not planted the stuff yet. I have a volunteer tomato plant that came up in my compost pile that must be 9-10 feet tall if you could stand it up. Of course it’s the best plant of all this year.
The best, most flavorful butternut squash I ever had grew in my compost pile, 2 yrs in a row. The flesh was almost the color of a red grapefruit! The 1st year produced 29 full sized squash. The following year, 26 squash! I think these volunteers & yours, are abundantly fed by compost, but also support the no dig theories of undisturbed soil being preferable for growth & health of plants.
This is a great experiment. I’m so glad you are doing this. This is something I have always wanted to do. Way to go dude. Will be perusal to see the fruits of this experiment. As far as the composting, I have had a lot of volunteer crops come up from my compost and did great. I believe it was due to the compost feeding all of the nutrients to the produce giving them all a chance equally at the nutrients. Best of luck with your potpourri raised bed.
Looking forward to the follow up article! My mom would always send me photos of fruits and veggies volunteers in their early stages asking me what I thought they might be…we always had a fun time guessing what we thought they were going to be and then ending up surprised when it grew up to be a huge pumpkin or something else random. 😁
Hi Luke, How fun!!! I love it! Can’t wait to see what happens! My guess is there will be a lot of radishes since they will pop up first. After that… Food chaos!!! Woo hoo! When will the “random seeds” packets be available on MIgardener website? Make them free and get people to send in pix of the garden they get! 🙂
I grew a potato. The vines are yellowing and one had no leaves left so I dug it up. If you knew what I went through to grow potatoes involving cutting the eye pieces and letting them scab over, you’d be blown away too. Nowhere did I find info saying that 2 days was all that was necessary so I kept having to cut mold off. After the 3rd time they were whittled down to half a bandaid size of peel, lol. Then we got torrential rains and no way was I letting them drown and rot so I put Saran Wrap over them. I don’t know whether to eat it or have it bronzed. Plants are miraculous.
Hi luke. My mamas partner has a compost garden that he doesnt maintain also and he has an abundance of volunteer plants that gives a lot. The most surprising plants that are growing now are avocado trees x5. Like i said he does absoloutely nothing to it, no watering or fertilising and just throwing in whatever. It’s quite amazing and we live in Wellington n.z, which is known for the cold and winds 🙂. Cheers
Hey there! My second graders are making predictions… Angel says: all plants will grow at the same time, because you planted them at the same time. Kamrien thinks: the plants will grow just fine as long as they get water, sun and great nutrients from the soil… we can’t wait to find out what happens!!
You are doing a plot of “regeneration/regenerative farming”” the latest technique of cover crop farming. It’s working and many farmers are starting to go back “to nature’s way” of farming. This is a no-till method. Always have a cover crop. Nature is modest, she likes to be covered. I think you too will have a bountiful harvest. All the best! Thank you for sharing!
Oh my God, as a new gardener last year, I had no idea how to do anything. So I bought a bunch and I mean a bunch of all kinds of seeds and just threw them out on the soil….no preparing the soil or anything. Simply bought some Coast Of Maine BlackEarth as top soil. Now I have this cool fantasy garden of flowers and veggies! Catmint, Marigolds, Sunflowers, Alyssum, Forget Me Nots, Cilantro, Jalapeños, Watermelon, Wild Strawberries, Peppermint and Mint are goat! Quite surprising and fascinating, so I’ve been doing this ever since. It seems the times I tried spreading seeds out and got all worked up about preparing the soil, I never got any germination but when I throw em and let em do their thing…..they really go at it! Edit to add…I do this for both my sun and shade garden. As the summer loving plants die, the autumn and winter loving seeds make their grand entry. When spring hit this year, the cycle repeated. I’m so loving it! Marigolds are the biggest goat though. They germinated and bloomed in the winter and as those died, more germinated and popped up in the spring. Like wowsers!
A corollary of plant succession is different plants like different soil conditions. One way to find out something about the soil is to plant a broad mix of plants and observe what does best. Plants also form communities linked by fungi, so planting a mix will ensure all functions of a community, like fixing N, will be taken care of.
I’ve been doing this with selected plant types for some time.I always plant beetroot,carrots and radishes mixed together.they crop at different times-radishes are come and gone (leaving spaces!) before the other two are large enough to compete.Climbing beans and peas are another mix with trellis to tie to.The garden bed gets very hungry (feed me! feed me!) after a couple of months.always get great crops.FYI you might have to cut the bok choy instead of pulling it – if it has nearby partners (you upset their root systems). Great going be ready for a busy time.
I may toss vegetable scraps in a portion of the garden I’m not using this Winter, since compost piles never heat up enough during that period anyway. I always get volunteers during winter, you name it.. it comes up. I’ll just toss them out there with the intent of building up organic matter and see what happens. 🤷 What can it hurt? Thanks Luke!
This will be cool to see. My 13 yr old did something similar to this, this year. I had a bunch of seeds that fell in the bottom of our bag and she took them all and planted them in a clear cup. It was interesting to see. Unfortunately because she planted them in a cup they didn’t get far. But this should be interesting.
Heck yeah, I love it! I grew some hydroponic Jebousek lettuce indoors over the winter and let a couple plants go to seed. I took all the seeds from both plants and planted them in a 4×12 bed in late April. The bed became a field of lettuce by mid-June. We harvested 40+ pounds of lettuce from that single bed. I look forward to trying something similar next year!
Greetings Luke..there is a concept amount gardgeners called Dense Gardening…as long as the space can handle the root system.. my guess is is that the flowering system would Fair good more then that of a root system where things like beets, carrots, and things would need to have room to develop.. as a experiential gardener myself I hope this turns out well.. blessings to you and your family…
I don’t do well with tomatoes. My best ever crop was accidental. I made a really yummy soup with Roma tomatoes. The seeds and the pulp were squeezed out, and I put them on top of a small secondary compost pile, and covered them with a bit of soil. I promptly forgot about them until about mid Septembet. Dozens of red and green tomatoes! More than we could eat at once. Sauce and some yummy green tomato relish ensued. What fun that was, by accident!
Ah my cup of tea. We got tomatoes sprouting everywhere. Must’ve been the rotten fruits I’ve thrown on the cold compost pile and used the spring. Just for curiosity I just left some on the ground and I’ve been picking tomatoes everywhere. lol I like to be more carefree than following rules. Sometimes it works.. satisfyingly.
This year my wife really wanted zucchini, but our garden is roughly 2ft by 6ft. A single zucchini would love that space. But I also planted 3 tomatoes, 4 peppers, and a ton of peas. Seem to be having a fantastic year still 🙂 it’s pretty tight in there but…best harvest I’ve ever had (only had a garden for 4 years)
I think that is great. Its what I’m doing right now, too, because randomly stuff keeps coming up in the garden anyway. Especially tomatoes and sunflowers, but other things too. So, why not? Last night I watched a tutorial on worm tunnels, too, so today in the garden preparing to add randomly as you are, I’ve realized I need to expand the garden, yet again. Hahahaha! Its an addiction!
my grandparents had a beautiful potato plant in their compost pile. We never harvested (dug out) the potatoes though because that compost pile is difficult to access and also recently had a dead chicken and a whole bunch of rotten eggs thrown on top… No one wants to touch it until next spring when those things have rotted away.
I just watch this but in west Africa, we do that a lot .almost in early days every house had it’s own small garden,because thier is a patch or place we just toss things and somehow it always grow back our mothers do that so much so only few things are bought in the market.most of the time we exchange or share harvest based what grew back from the toss out patch.
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I’m guessing that, at the least, you’re going to have a lot of good salads. You’ll probably get a lot of baby carrots, turnips and radishes. I’m not sure about rutabagas, but you’ll probably get some, I’m just not sure how big they’ll get. If you thin as you pick, you will probably get a lot. most of those crops don’t need a lot of room. It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun.
i love this. Absolutely love this. What is better than experimenting with anything in life? Isn’t that how any major scientific discovery is made? AND, that is pretty much how every single seed we plant came to be. Absolutely love this idea. I can see this as a great idea for anyone with an extra section of their garden free and a bunch of extra stuff they didn’t have room or a plan for.
Florida here. My garden season is still a month away. I have 125 tomato plants now willing with suckers I will be able to set out 200 tomato plants. No one here is growing heirlooms to market. I am. Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes. Sweet beefsteak style 2 1/2 to 4 pound tomatoes with heavy producing vines to 9 feet (some people claim to have them vine to 25 ft) is what the claim is. I am going to find out.
Ahaha. I already did this many times. Weeds take over in the end even if you remove the weeds by the roots every time. The vegetables and flowers that do survive, are ones that can be propagated by cuttings or those established already. I used to mix different lettuce seeds with different herbs (thinking that the herbs will protect the lettuce), some tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, eggplants, different flowers, more herbs and basil, etc…some batches with beans, etc… I stopped with the last batch many months ago when I mixed in a lot of different herbs and only the Basil grew. That’s what keeps happening if all seeds are scattered/planted all at once. It’s different if I don’t plant it all at once. Still mixed though. Tropical climate but currently near the highlands so it gets a bit cold. About 20°C. Also, I think this method attracts pests for most people and those that eat and mine the seeds. Try it in your area since it also depends on many factors. Mine…yeah…I’m out of seeds again. Lol.
I like the experimental nature of this article. Not to say I dislike when you or other gardeners explains a practice already learned from past experience. I suspect it’s just things like this feel like we’ll learn something together, even if we’ll see it after you eventually make a article on your results. LOL. It doesn’t make sense maybe, but I did like the experiment.
Wait a minute, Luke, I saw you held a pack of Pak Choi! I kept on checking your seeds store, almost on a daily basis, and it’s always out of stock, so, how did you manage to get one? 🙂 BTW, I did the same with my compost and got lots of volunteer melon and tomato plants. Great article, can’t wait to see the results!
Another great article, thanks again for taking the time to talk to me and my daughter last Friday at your store. It was the highlight for the both of us and she is very excited to plant the carrots. And if anyone else has a chance to make it to the Migardener store you should go, everyone there was very friendly and knowledgeable!
I find that having planted seeds, and having many packets of good seeds left, that just to toss them in a drawer seems criminal. Better to just plant them anywhere you can scrape back some dirt than to just let them go to waste. At least that’s my thinking. I looked for seeds at Walmart’s big seed display a few days ago, as I am also doing an experiment. I am always struck by how “few” seeds seem to be in the package. Until I get the package open! They are so small, and it’s so easy to over plant because of it. Carrot seeds are so dinky, but carrots really aren’t. I think I would have split the 6,000 into two beds, and that still would have been a riot. He must have gotten those as a promotion or something, because seeds are too expensive to “waste” like that.
Aren’t most of the spacing conventions because of ease of watering, weeding and harvesting on a conventional farming setup? With a small farm, especially a garden using raised beds, these things are far easier to do without bothering plants, or their produce, so it would only make sense that plants could be spaced closer together.
Hi, Luke. This sounds like such a blast! — I suspect you will get more of a harvest than you anticipated. Some of the plants grow above ground while others grow below ground. Some will mature earlier while others mature later. The only problem MIGHT be with taller plants crowding out the shorter plants — but if they are interspersed…you will probably succeed with that, too! Thank you for having the courage to give this a go… — look forward to seeing what happens! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA — 8/28/2019.
I had Thanksgiving watermelon from the compost pile in TX, pumpkins, tomatoes from compost pile in IL and not sure if that is a plum or apricot tree ( or some weed I don’t know?) but sorta need to move it. With the very small yard I have things literally stacked in all over, it is chaos. I like breaking rules.
Gardening has become a science when it’s more of an art. It’s less about formulas and rules than it is about observation and possibilities. Listen (and talk) to the plants. Plants like to be in communities, diverse communities, not in factory assembly lines. AND it’s good to have each type of weed interspersed among veggies as companion plants (bug control); like yarrow makes everything around it healthier & sweeter. Different root depth is a good indicator whether to plant things together, so they are competing but complimenting each other. AND there’s a point of diminishing return as far as how much can survive in a small space. I planted 2 packets of basil in a small raised bed and only 6 plants germinated. That is really sad. I won’t be buying from that seed company again. ?Is Trifecta a brand name? What is it made of? I’m not able to find it.
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