root wars
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: root wars
- From: D* S* <d*@leland.stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:14:09 -0700
Folks - Because my patch is about 1,000 sq ft I will only be growing out
one plant. However, I was planning on keeping several others *very* small
(~ 25 sq ft each) as pollenation stock. Does anyone know if the roots of
the small plants will continue to grow and interfere with the main one? I
know what the patch will look like above ground, but I don't want to
sabotage the growing conditions sub-surface.
Intuition says a plant will only develop as much root structure as it needs
or can use, but I've never dug up a heavily pruned plant.
Dan Shapiro
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