I confess, I can not kill a seedling that I planted on purpose. I may move it many times, but use scissors to snip it off... I can't.

It may be in the weirdest excuse for a pot, but I won't snip it off!
Is there hope for me, doc?

well if you are moving the pants you obviously are organizing and conserving, and not hoarding.Ozark Lady wrote:*cough* stands up...
I confess, I can not kill a seedling that I planted on purpose. I may move it many times, but use scissors to snip it off... I can't.![]()
It may be in the weirdest excuse for a pot, but I won't snip it off!
Is there hope for me, doc?
lol the more comment of yourse I read the more I wounder if we were sister separated at birth (and changed skin tones along to way lol) I snip only if I have to for the best of the strong of the two (and if I can't salvage the extra) But mostly I will take the extra plants and offer them to friends and family and if they don't want it I'll offer it free on CL or freecycle, and if THEY don't want it then I finally give in and stick it someplace it will be happier. lolOzark Lady wrote:*cough* stands up...
I confess, I can not kill a seedling that I planted on purpose. I may move it many times, but use scissors to snip it off... I can't.![]()
It may be in the weirdest excuse for a pot, but I won't snip it off!
Is there hope for me, doc?
I wasn't just trying to prove ya wrong, Toil; I was mostly just throwing out my findings and wondering what anyone had to say about it.The Helpful Gardener wrote:G5, that is just from plants that have the same nutritional needs and like root systems...
What if we start using different plants with say, shallower root sytems? Completely different nutritional needs? Now we can shoehorn crops together even closer...
Check [url=https://www.dervaesgardens.com/]THIS[/url] out...
SIX tons of food every year on a tenth of an acre!
Amazing! Try that, monocultural row cropping farmers...
HG
This year I did much research before planting. I planted the 3 sisters together. (I did summer squashes on one side and melons and pumpkins on the other) Only I read in several books and magazines that if plant 5x5 blocks of corn that are planted 6" apart with pole beans spaced 6" apart. you'll get both better pollination (for the corn) and better fertilization (from the beans for the corn). I also read that sunflowers and dill are a deterrent for some pests that affect corn,(and an attractant to their enemiesYeah, think about the 3 sisters as a classic polyculture eg. beans and corn and squash all grown together.
If I had squash between my maters, I wouln't be able to get to the stuff to harvest.G5, try the zucchini in between the maters; keeps down the weeds and doesn't compete. An old Italian polyculture...
The Helpful Gardener wrote:Straw is a high nitrogen and actually imparts nitrogen as it bereaks down unlike a higher carbon item that takes more bacteria to break it down, therefore using more nitrogen (don't forget that bacteria are high nitrogen items at 5:1 C:N).
Sure fungi does most of the break down for wood but they are producing ammonium which is pretty high nitrogen itself and needs bacteria to break down to plant soluble forms of N for our row crops and such (woodland plants have adapted to use ammonium...)
HG