thinning your plants

I wish I had that problem! I am lucky to just get them to grow normally!

hi 3SnuggleBunnies I always pulled out the ones crowding the other plants,if you have nice enriched soil and keep it moist you needed not bother with a hoe as the plant will just pull out with a tug of your hand. cutting the tops off does nothing as the roots are still there to grow more leaves.

If you trim them at the ground don't they still grow? I snip mine too...I hate pulling out precious plants as I don't have the most green thumb in the world!

Just started doing planting outside so I am not sure which is the best way but I know that the few people I have talked to seem to all tell me to pull the weeds by hand but to cut the plant to ground level that way if it is wanting to bloom again it can. We planted some poppys, Mexican sunflowers and some cosmos in our little flower gardens and so far they are blooming up but they don't have any flowers on them yet we are anxious to see how well they do and what they look like all together. On the side of our house we just went ahead and planted some flats and my daughter had some sunflowers from school so we planted them and then gave some to our neighbors and while ours are up and looking good there's are about 2 inches higher than ours so I am hoping hat ours will still do something because I know that my daughter is really looking forward to them because she planted them herself.

For me, I have always dug things out roots and all so that I am able to thin them. The reason that I do this is because of the fact that if you leave the roots in the ground, then the plant is most likely going to come back and that means that you will be stuck doing the work all over again so there really wouldn't be all that much point to thinning them out when you are just going to have to do the work all over again soon.

hi, another way of thinning plants is they transfer their plants in a small pottery so that it can control the continuing of become larger of the plants,that is why now a days there are many kind of plants now that are usually big but still small because of this.

When you are thinning you can use many of these small plants as you would any sprout in salad of soups. Of course this only works with the ones you can eat.