I'm not wanting to plant anything in particular, it's just that I'm trying to compare my garden yield with some sort of standard. Curiosity, mostly. In the case of your radishes, perhaps the long row yields 4 pounds of radishes, each one 2 oz., in an area 96 inches long and 4 inches wide. That's 2.4 square feet. Perhaps the radishes planted very close together are also 2 oz each, so you're getting 4 pounds in less area. Now on the flip side, perhaps those radishes crammed close together only average 1.5 oz each. Now you're getting 3 pounds per 2 square feet, or 1.5 lb/sq ft. Whereas a row planting gave 1.67 lb/sq ft. I'm just pulling numbers out of the air - actually I figure SFM is a lot more efficient than row planting, but without any numbers to back it up, how can you tell? It all really comes down to what you enjoy and what works for you, but if people are selling a methodology on how efficient it is, then its efficiency should be demonstrable. And in any case, I want to know if me growing 16 pounds of potatoes in 22.5 sq. ft. is average, above average or under average. I also want to know, as I plant things in the space that the potatoes occupied, what would give me the biggest bang for my buck. I can find supermarket prices, but I can't find yield information. Like I said, this is mainly curiosity, because I've already planted half the potato area with beets and turnips. I think I'll plant some chard next to them.

Hi Mike, Dont buy the oxypetalum. I am sending you a few pieces of this one. It is true that they grow like crazy. I left this one at my parents house when I moved out because it does take a tremendous amount of space. I got a call from my mom and she told me that she was waiting for the day that that was going to strangle her..LOL. Once you have an established cutting, you can expect some new growths to be a couple feet long. No joke, mine had some growths that were 4 ft long in one summer!! The blooms are great! Just make sure your going to be home to enjoy them! Mine only lasted one night and that was it. As soon as the sun went down, the bud would begin to open. By the time the sun came up, it was closing. Logees describes it as having flowers the size of dinner plates. I had some that were even larger than that!!! Mine is pitifull now compared to when it was in its glory. I wished I would have found a way to care for it here. At one point, that plant was around 10ft long but I have had it for over 10 years. You can control the growth with pruning. Just make sure you do it at the right time or you will end up with no blooms. I will have to read up on my notes on this before I can tell you when to prune it. I can send you 3-4 nice cuttings next week with the others if you want okay? I also have a nice big pink epi. I don't know the name of the variety but it is really pretty. Trust me, neither of them will take a lifetime to get blooms from. My oxy bloomed in 1.5-2 years after I got it. I started a couple for friends and the one I gave to my landlords mom bloomed the same year I rooted it! The pink variety I bought locally and they had rooted cuttings with buds on them. I will say that it may take a couple years for those blooms to reach there potential. Andrew

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Our office kitchen has a bar like that. It's a gloss laminate that matches the cabinets. Custom made, yes. Much lower cost than if made from quartz.