Collards and Cabbage

The furrows have been completed and now planted!

The first row had been dedicated to growing cabbagge and 9 pre-potted cabagge seedlings have been planted at a distance of 18 inches apart.

But it's in the next two rows that the fun begins.

The seed package for the collard greens recommended a planting distance of 2-3 feet between each plant. I and my team found this to be an excessively gracious distance and thought a much humbler 10 inches would be sufficient for the greens to reach full production without all the wasted space. But, Mr. Hardin disagreed. It is his opinion that the greens will bush out amply to fill in the extra distance and that planting the plants 10 inches apart will simply stunt their growth and will produce no more greens than if the collards were planted according to the package's instructions.

So naturally a challenge was issued, and in the scientific course of determining the winner, an experiment was created.

Hypothesis: "Collard greens planted 10 inches apart will produce more greens per row than collard greens planted 2 feet apart."

Thus the four remaining rows were planted; two (group A)with 6 plants each and spaced evenly at 2 feet apart, and the other (group B)with a dozen plants each and spaced evenly at 10 inches aprat. The rows will be kept equally watered and weeded. At the beginning of harvest, a half a row from each group will be collected and the produce wieghed, the group with the greatest production weight of greens will be crowned victorious.

The soil is set and the seeds are taking root, let the competition begin.