Now, I'd like to say this is some type of experiment I had come up with, but what it actually was, was just bad gardening. I am learning gardening, for the most part, from books and the internet. So when I heard to plant X" apart in rows spaced Y" apart, I did just that. I planted something like this:
Now, 3 weeks later with 1 single seeds sprout, I dug it all up and re-planted, but this time, I planted at the bottom of the "trenches" I had dug - so,like this:
Now, obviously my rows were nowhere near that high, but I had to use those exaggerated pictures to show you what I meant. I have found that the bottom picture (planting in the furrows) worked better. It seemed to retain water better, and did so without flooding the roots, because eventually the rows flattened out, and water didn't set on the bed.
Anyway, maybe that info can help anyone else. Perhaps the seeds being raised up on the row-tops, they just needed a lot more precipitation than what they were getting (which should have been plenty, but whatever).
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