Which Grows Faster?

About 3 weeks ago, we decided to uproot our pole bean bed and plant some salad greens in preparation for the cooling temperatures. The beans were awful to begin with: they had hard strings on their edges making them very unpalatable to eat. Even when I spent hours trying to remove the strings, they still made their way into the pot. I will never plant that variety again (dogal sirik oz ayse fasulye tohumu). It is actually funny that they are advertised as the most delicious and non-stringy beans that you can ever it!

Anyways, this is how the new bed looked right after we planted it:


And this is how it looks now (3 weeks later):


From near to far, the plants are spring onions, radishes, lettuce (red winter romaine lettuce), another type of lettuce (lolla bionda), and beetroot.  The spring onions were planted as bulbs, not seeds. So I think we can clearly say that spring onions beat the competition together with radishes. The other plants are coming out slowly but steadily. The red winter romaine lettuce requires some thinning, which I have recently started doing (when thinning I do not throw away the thinned out ones -- just plant them in other parts of the garden). I will try to share another image in about 3 weeks from now. So I hope you enjoyed this comparison. What is growing on in your garden this fall?

Edit: This another update from the same bed captured on October 28, 2020.


You can see the strong growth of radishes (middle) and the beetroot (at the back).

Edit: Here is another update from November 14. The radishes grew strong leaves. They did not develop roots but I was not expecting them to do so when planted so late in the season. Their leaves are an excellent addition to any salad.



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