overplants
Sows too densely
Overplants is the third-person singular verb form of overplant, meaning to plant too many crops, flowers, or other vegetation in a given area.
Gardeners overplant when they crowd seedlings too closely together, and farmers overplant when they exceed what the soil can sustainably support.
She overplants her containers every spring and ends up thinning them by June.
The term can also apply figuratively to any situation involving excessive or redundant placement.
Capacity exceeded dangerously
- spacingInterval arrangement between objects
- thinningReducing density or number
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
- transplantsSurgical tissue transfers
crowded · dense · beds · rows · germination · succession · sowing · propagation
Encroaching without welcome
- nativeOriginating from a place
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
ecosystem · dominance · choking · understory · canopy · restoration · overgrowth · succession
overcrowding
Capacity exceeded dangerously
- spacingInterval arrangement between objects
- thinningReducing density or number
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
transplants · crowded · dense · beds · rows · germination · succession · sowing · propagation · root-bound
invasive
Encroaching without welcome
- nativeOriginating from a place
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- biodiversityRange of life forms
habitat · ecosystem · dominance · choking · understory · canopy · restoration · overgrowth · succession · colonization
overseeding
Sowing into established grass
- monocultureSingle-crop agricultural system
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- rotationTurning on an axis
fields · acreage · surplus · cultivation · harvest · fallow · agronomy · intensive · extensive · tillage