Succession sowing at intervals of about two weeks extends harvest for short-DTM crops.
Promising If you skip this, it still grows, just less well. The planner suggests it.
How it works
Sowing the same crop in batches about two weeks apart staggers when each batch matures, so the harvest arrives as a continual succession, with no single glut. It pays off only for short-DTM crops, whose quick turnaround lets several sowings ripen within a single season.
The evidence
Evidence: checked against 1 source in the research-based literature.
The source
Succession planting extends the vegetable harvest
Plant teams that rest on it
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Milpa Gardens. "Succession sowing at intervals of about two weeks extends harvest for short-DTM crops." Evidence grade: Promising. https://milpa.garden/rules/succession-sowing-intervals-about-two-weeks-extends/
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- Well established
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- The mechanism is named and the literature backs it. A few questions are still open.
- A good hunch
- Plausible by its mechanism, but field studies are thin, so treat it as a lean.
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