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Old 22-08-2008, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Stan The Man View Post
Does that mean you don't harvest all your crop? I had imagined that everything would be eaten before it grew beyond a foot... Or does the plant produce some inedible shrubbery?
You can't harvest every shoot, you have to leave some of it to grow on, to carry out photosynthesis to feed the roots for next year.