Re: Picking the right plant.

I would delay the final cut as long as possible, without comprimising the
space requirements of the plants. Some plants get off to a great start then
fall back severly later on. I found this out the hard way this year. I
transplanted an AG to make room for a squash. They were the same age,
squash-2 foot runner vine, big leaves,  AG-1 foot runner vine ,smaller
leaves. Hating to just kill the AG I transplanted it to a less fertile
section of my garden. It barely survived the onslaught on being dug up and
transplanted. It was wilted for 3 days and the older leaves died back, but
it recovered and gave me two 200 lb. pumpkins-not too bad. As for the
squash, well, it slowed considerably in early summer and put out 2  50
pound squash, one of which rotted in Sept. At the end of the season, the AG
and Squash plants were about the same size but the AG had been
super-stressed, grown in less fertile soil and still outweighed the sqash
by 300 lbs. The AG was clearly the superior plant of the two but I made my
cut to early and could have had a larger AG.I should have put more space
between the young plants and directed the vines away from each other. 2 or
3 weeks more and I would have seen which plant was better.  I just keep
thinking      what if?  What if?  ......

John


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