Sugar beet used to be the same - farmers spent a lot of time/money on 'singling' the beet by hand with a hoe (I used to do it when I got home from school). I can remember the huge difference it made when 'monogerm' seeds were introduced - no longer were the fields full of gangs of men, women and children with hoes and bent backs for a month each spring.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes - the 'monogerm' was really that the seeds had been processed in some way so that they were split into the individual seeds rather than the cluster. I think they were then coated in something (clay?) so that they were large enough to be sown individually by the seed drill.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Wow - better than a BOGOF! Thank you for my new bit of knowledge for today!
Beetroot often produce more than one plant per seed.
There is a name for this, I'm sure Nutcutlet will come along and remember it.
Too early for me on a Sunday.
Sugar beet used to be the same - farmers spent a lot of time/money on 'singling' the beet by hand with a hoe (I used to do it when I got home from school). I can remember the huge difference it made when 'monogerm' seeds were introduced - no longer were the fields full of gangs of men, women and children with hoes and bent backs for a month each spring.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think beetroot and beet seeds are more than one seed.
I'd never heard of other plants doing this so had a google. All the references are to cannabis.
Didn't find anything scientific on a brief search
A possibility is damage at germination time and branching from there.
Dunno mate
In the sticks near Peterborough
I currently have a tomato doing this. I really need to take one away....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes - the 'monogerm' was really that the seeds had been processed in some way so that they were split into the individual seeds rather than the cluster. I think they were then coated in something (clay?) so that they were large enough to be sown individually by the seed drill.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.