On 13/06/2013 20:48, David.WE.Roberts wrote:
Bought a couple of pots of courgette seedlings from Lidl.

When I came to plant them out, one pot had two courgette plants closely
intertwined, the other had three.
I know because I could see the seed leaves.

Now another year, if it was earlier in the season and I had a bit more
time I would have broken up the root ball and teased the plants apart in
the hope of getting 2 or 3 for 1.

Standard planting instructions say to plant two seed together then pinch
out the weaker one after germination.

Here, they look to be so closely intertwined that separating them could
set them back a few weeks.
Pinching one or two out didn't seem a good idea as they were so well
developed, plus having rotting dead plants mixed in with live ones might
not be the best idea.

So I have just planted them up in their friendship group.

Am I likely to get a decent yield from a group of plants?

Cheers

Dave R

Plant them as they are and just feed well and keep them well watered if
it turns dry.
In nature they would grow in clumps.
Unless they are very small then you risk loosing one or all of them by
spiting them up. I did that with 3 cucumber plants from Aldi, they were
just 2 to 3 inches tall, but I still lost one, and the other 2 were
knocked back by almost 2 weeks.
David @ a wet side of Swansea Bay