What Happens When You Plant 6000 Seeds and Completely Disregard Spacing? Let’s Find Out!

[hughbrackett]

The first rule of Plant Fight Club is you don't talk about Plant Fight Club.

[ColoradicalMike]

I do this all the time when I have too many seeds. Survival of the fittest happens. It's cool to watch them outgrow one another and compete for resources. Also the diversity is great for lowering the risk of pest & diseases. I even let the winners re-seed themselves since they do well in those areas. Looking forward to seeing your results! -Brit

[Seabee]

Illinois here! Great video! Totally agree! CURIOSITY is what makes a good gardener!

[NiaLin]

Well... Nature doesn’t do spacing 🤷🏼‍♀️

[TheOtivid]

I love this chaotic gardening energy. Being afraid to experiment with the world is what sets us back as human beings. Curiosity always should lead.

[bodahms]

Love this idea. Can't wait to see results. Thinking outside the box is one of the things we love about you

[dremodicus]

The Spinach Kingdom will rise up and rule them all, praise be!

[regeneratedlife]

Being that its our first year of gardening, I am so nervous and anxious about experimenting with seeds because I don't want to be wasteful. My husband encourages me to just go with my curiosity and not worry about the outcome. Videos like this help in that same vein. Thank you!

[Legit_SuperFall]

I kinda hate it when people just talk about the video theyre making for 10 minutes and then only complete half of it.

[shuvanidev]

I've done this with the combination of leaf lettuces, miner's lettuce, mache, scallions, radishes, beets and carrots and it worked so well. I left some of it to go to seed and was amazed at how much had reseeded and come up the next year too. Not only productive but it was also a beautiful garden as well. Awesome idea, and I love your polyculture mix! Thumbs up!!

[DeadeyeJoe]

So this is what happens when you have too many seeds & not enough time & space to plant out a nice organized bed. I dig it. :)

[randydeshane]

Last year that’s what I did with my keyhole garden. I put all my various lettuces in my hand and just spread them around, same with arugula . I also planted spinach and broccoli in the mix. It turned out to be very lush and provided greens all winter long, with the help of a covered garden.

[lauriemclean]

There is so much in that mix you can harvest as microgreens when you need to thin out the plants. And then further thin for baby greens. Sounds like a good way to go. 👍

[alarcon]

I’m so excited to see what happens in this bed. So cool that you are willing to experiment!

[tangenting]

How often will you be doing updates? I'm definitely interested in watching what happens!

[lanakane]

I love that you are doing this because I am new to gardening and have been experimenting (read: because I'm lazy) and I figured that nature doesn't space, seeds fall where they do.  So I threw a bunch of seeds in and am watching them sprout.  When I see some blank spaces I threw some more seeds in.  I can't wait to see what happens!

[chadbadman]

I tried this with radishes, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and kohlrabi; the kohlrabi did great and so did the carrots but the radishes, all i got was long skinny roots with no bulbs! The lettuce was kind of hit or miss yet the cabbage did great. Im in NE Indiana, about 30 mins south of Coldwater MI. or 90 mins south of Lansing MI. EITHER WAY A FALL GARDEN IS where i get the most productivity! I planted early cabbage, brocolli and cauliflower; they produced yet, not great. My fall harvest is WAY ABOVE AND BEYOND what i EVER expected! I am beyond grateful that YOU have shown me that a FALL garden is better than a spring garden. I never would have thought this as i was showed how to garden from my grandparents (Grandma just turned 92) and i showed her you're tapping the tomato flower videos and she has been absolutley amazed with the results! She is 92 like i said and she got over 40lbs of tomatoes off of one beefsteak which she juiced *by hand* and canned with a recipie from 1932 that her mom passed down (which i use, no seperation) and it also made a great paste/base if boiled down. I hope you keep this channel going for a VERY LONG TIME! THANK YOU LUKE AND MRS. MI GARDENER for the great videos and input for us northern gardeners!!!

[cwa]

OMG! I have wondered the same thing myself! Following with great interest! I have wanted to do this for soooo long! If nothing else, just to keep the ground covered. I want to use my excess seeds as cover crops!

[pjanoo]

I love that you make videos like this, most people will refuse to do this because it "breaks the rules". You can't learn without failing.

[Unsensitive]

My lazy unworked compost pile grew a massive butternut squash plant this year. I'd say it's sprawled over 30'x30' now.
Probably 15 full size, and a bunch of smaller still growing squash.