Highcharts space between columns for null xAxis points - charts

Question

When you have a chart in Highcharts that has x number of columns, and there is not necessarily data at each xAxis point for each column in the chart, is there a way to collapse the columns that do exist for the data points so there is no whitespace between them (where there is no column data)?
https://jsfiddle.net/anth_3/bmfbpxme/1/
$(function () {
$('#container').highcharts({
chart: {
zoomType: 'xy'
},
title: {
text: ''
},
xAxis: [{
categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',
'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'],
crosshair: true,
reversed: false,
labels: {
step: 1,
rotation: 45
},
type: 'datetime',
tickLength: 7,
showEmpty: false,
tickPositions: [0, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56],
tickmarkPlacement: 'on'
}],
yAxis: [{ // Primary yAxis
labels: {
format: '{value}°F'
},
title: {
text: 'Temperature'
}
}, { // Secondary yAxis
title: {
text: 'Precipitation'
},
labels: {
format: '{value} in'
},
opposite: true
}, { // Tertiary yAxis
title: {
text: ''
},
labels: {
enabled: false
},
opposite: false
}],
tooltip: {
shared: true
},
legend: {
layout: 'vertical',
align: 'left',
x: 80,
verticalAlign: 'top',
y: 2,
floating: true,
backgroundColor: (Highcharts.theme && Highcharts.theme.legendBackgroundColor) || '#FFFFFF'
},
plotOptions: {
column: {
marker: {
enabled: false
},
yAxis: 2,
showInLegend: false
},
area: {
color: 'rgb(74, 134, 232)',
lineWidth: 3,
fillOpacity: 0.3,
marker: {
enabled: false,
symbol: 'circle',
radius: 2
},
yAxis: 1,
tooltip: {
valueSuffix: ' in'
}
},
line: {
tooltip: {
valueSuffix: ' °F'
},
lineWidth: 3,
marker: {
enabled: false,
symbol: 'circle',
radius: 2
}
}
},
series: [{
name: 'Harvest',
color: 'rgb(255, 140, 0)',
type: 'column',
data: [100, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, 100, null]
},{
name: 'Tillage',
color: 'rgb(139, 69, 19)',
type: 'column',
data: [null, 100, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, 100]
},{
name: 'Irrigation',
color: 'rgb(0, 179, 238)',
type: 'column',
data: [100, 100, null, null, null, null, null, 100, null, null, null, null]
}, {
name: 'Rainfall',
type: 'area',
data: [49.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4]
}, {
name: 'Air Temperature',
color: 'rgb(206, 101, 95)',
type: 'line',
data: [9.0, 7.9, 5.4, 12.5, 19.2, 17.8, 24.2, 28.5, 29.3, 32.3, 18.9, 15.6]
}, {
name: 'Soil Temperature',
color: 'rgb(51, 51, 51)',
type: 'line',
data: [7.0, 6.9, 9.5, 14.5, 18.2, 21.5, 25.2, 26.5, 23.3, 18.3, 13.9, 9.6]
}]
});
});