I had biology in college but never experience this topic. If you want to see another example I just experience this but I didn't know anything about it. I helped make some garden boxes in our back yard. The soil I used was from our old compost pile. I didn't have much of the "good stuff" left since I had given some of it away. What I used was from an are I had dumped a cat litter box years ago. The cat had liver her life and had died several years ago so it was from an area maybe 5 to 7 years old. My cabbage plants are about three feet tall but no head has formed. Spinich is real straggly, it was producing seeds at the joint of the leaves and stem. I finished eating some that I had brought in this morning. The stems are hollow and tough. I didn't try to cook these. The leaves are OK but I also had put the seeds with them. The seeds were already almost to hard to eat. (Microwaved for three and a half minutes was oK for the leaves but not the seeds.). I looked on line about a possible cause of this and it said: "too much nitrogen in the soil can cause this but corn grows will in this type of soil" . I didn't plant any corn though. Yes, location and soil condition can change the looks and how they grow. If you want to study mine,, come over some Sunday afternoon when you are in the area.
I had biology in college but never experience this topic. If you want to see another example I just experience this but I didn't know anything about it. I helped make some garden boxes in our back yard. The soil I used was from our old compost pile. I didn't have much of the "good stuff" left since I had given some of it away. What I used was from an are I had dumped a cat litter box years ago. The cat had liver her life and had died several years ago so it was from an area maybe 5 to 7 years old. My cabbage plants are about three feet tall but no head has formed. Spinich is real straggly, it was producing seeds at the joint of the leaves and stem. I finished eating some that I had brought in this morning. The stems are hollow and tough. I didn't try to cook these. The leaves are OK but I also had put the seeds with them. The seeds were already almost to hard to eat. (Microwaved for three and a half minutes was oK for the leaves but not the seeds.). I looked on line about a possible cause of this and it said: "too much nitrogen in the soil can cause this but corn grows will in this type of soil" . I didn't plant any corn though. Yes, location and soil condition can change the looks and how they grow. If you want to study mine,, come over some Sunday afternoon when you are in the area.