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Re: crowded plants

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On 09:15 AM 7/7/99 +0000, Melissa McCarthy wrote:

>Also, i would like to add a fall crop of peas, but I planted other 
>things around my peas, and so now i need to put the fall peas 
>somewhere else. All i have left for space is a strip that's about 4 
>ft by 10 ft. The thing is, I tried to plant like hte book said, 
>making sure that my tall plants (like the peas) are on the north end 
>of the garden. But now i will have to plant these from north to 
>south, on the west side of the garden... do you think this will 
>severely diminish my crop?

It depends on your morning sun and what is planted to the east of this row
area.  If you get plenty of strong morning sunlight, and the plants that
are immediately east of this area can tolerate being shaded (e.g. lettuce,
spinach, broccoli etc.) by the peas in the afternoon, they should be OK.
The peas should be fine, you put your tall plants at the north end of your
garden to avoid having them shade other plants, not because they need to be
oriented in some specific fashion on their own.

Since you have a strip that is 4x10, I'd plant the peas in a 1 foot row (10
feet by 1 foot, so it is 10 squares) on the west edge of this strip, then
plant some shade tolerant plant to the east of the peas (fall lettuce gets
my vote), leaving a path on the east side of the plot if needed.

Alternately, you can turn this 10x4 area into 2 4x4 beds with a 2 foot path
between them, and plant peas in the "normal" orientation along the north
end of one or both beds (depending on how much you like peas).


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