On Friday, November 1, 2013 2:06:38 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
here is a pic from earlier this summer where i'd planted

peas into a garden where one side was prepared by mixing in

plenty of wood chips and the other side had the same

treatment except i added a few inches of soil on top of

that where there was no added wood chips.



http://www.anthive.com/flowers/100_7...io_Example.jpg



the plants to the left are obviously struggling (about a

month later they caught up).




Which side is which in your experiment?






there were beets planted in this same garden and they

took all summer to get big enough to pick, but they

were quite large when we finally got around to it.



a few volunteer squash were left to grow, they also

took most of the summer to put on one fruit each.



not that i'm surprised by any of this, it was just

something to try and watch what happened.



i planted a second round of peas in the middle when

the first round of peas got picked. just to cover it

and keep the weeds from having an easy start. they

did well enough, but i think the chipmunk pretty much

got anything that was large enough to eat in a pod.





songbird