PETC Meeting and Contest
It is time for members to come forward and 'fess up. Who is Planting Everything Too Close this year? My entries this beautiful spring growing season.
It is only fitting that I have Sweet Corn growing much too close together. It was the corn fields in fertile Illinois soil in 1973 that gave me the idea of planting seed side by side. Hey, they could do it so why not central Alabama?
- Shanghaisky
- Cool Member
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- Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:31 pm
- Location: Upstate NY/ Zone 5a/b
- Gary350
- Super Green Thumb
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- Joined: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:59 pm
- Location: TN. 50 years of gardening experience.
I use to work hard at planting things too close squeezing a lot into a small 20'x40' garden. I learned from experience my tomatoes get Sun burn in hot 100 degrees weather so I planted my tomato plants, 2 ft apart in rows 2 ft apart, the plants shaded each other and NO sun burn problems. I use to plant corn in a 10'x10' square, 11 rows, 1 ft row spacing, 21 seeds per row, pollination was excellent for such a small compact corn crop.
Now I have a 35'x60' garden and don't plant close like I once did expect for greens I plants in February. I planted 1000 Napa seeds in a 3' square LOL it came up like a crop of lettuce now it is all going to seed. I planted 6 kinds of lettuce the same way 3'x3' it is all too close. I planted Swiss chard over and over 3 times it never came up until a few weeks ago now it is all coming up all in the same spot. I threw 500 bean seeds in the garden all in 1 spot now it is all coming up, this actually works very well I have done this before. My tomato plants are under a shade tree this year doing extremely well, rows 3' apart, plant spacing 3' apart, 18 plants. My corn crop is 15'x15' square this year, 3' row spacing, 5 rows, 31 seeds per row.
Now I have a 35'x60' garden and don't plant close like I once did expect for greens I plants in February. I planted 1000 Napa seeds in a 3' square LOL it came up like a crop of lettuce now it is all going to seed. I planted 6 kinds of lettuce the same way 3'x3' it is all too close. I planted Swiss chard over and over 3 times it never came up until a few weeks ago now it is all coming up all in the same spot. I threw 500 bean seeds in the garden all in 1 spot now it is all coming up, this actually works very well I have done this before. My tomato plants are under a shade tree this year doing extremely well, rows 3' apart, plant spacing 3' apart, 18 plants. My corn crop is 15'x15' square this year, 3' row spacing, 5 rows, 31 seeds per row.