[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

charliehill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Fri May 21 04:48:48 PDT 2010


Thanks for the information guys.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Greer" <markagreer at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans


> We can plant two crops of green beans here in NE Ohio so I'm sure you 
> could
> do it in NC. They only take two months so if you plant a crop now you can
> plant another mid summer. Alternatively, you can leave the plants from 
> your
> first crop in after the harvest and they will bloom a second time and give
> another smaller harvest later.
> Mark
>
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> From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans
>
>
>> Charlie, in my researches for varieties I believe that in most parts of
>> North Carolina there is a spring and a late summer time to plant snap
>> beans.
>> Is that the case where you live? Here we plant from about early April
>> (sometimes too cold like this year - closer to May 1 this year) till 
>> about
>> August 25 for the late bush beans. On the late crops sometimes they get
>> frosted very early, but I have harvested as late as Christmas Day also. 
>> On
>> the early crops, if the year is cool sometimes they literally produce
>> almost
>> nothing. All Beans except sometimes the winter Fava Beans (or Broad Beans
>> if
>> you are English or Horse Beans if you are an Azorean old-timer LOL) must
>> be
>> irrigated to produce a harvest.
>>           Grant Brians
>>           Hollister,California
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of charliehill
>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:06 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Vavorite garden beans
>>
>>
>> thanks Grant.   I had not intended to plant any beans this year and it's
>> pretty late for it now but after all this talk I think I might plant a 
>> few
>> hills and see what they do.  I have some seed.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Grant Brians" <sales at heirloom-organic.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Vavorite garden beans
>>
>>
>>> Charlie, I am very familiar with both Kentucky Wonder and Roma (a Romano
>>> Bean variety.) Romano beans have a stronger flavor than any of the true
>>> Kentucky Wonder beans do. It is a little more "rough" if you will. I 
>>> have
>>> noticed that some seed sellers are mis-identifying Kentucky Wonder....
>>> Also,
>>> there is a bush Kentucky Wonder that was developed in New Hampshire in
>>> the
>>> 1950s that I grow all the time called Greencrop that is a tasty Kentucky
>>> Wonder bean. You might try that too. The Kentucky Wonder beans were
>>> nearly
>>> all that was commercially sold in grocery stores nationally until the
>>> Bush
>>> Blue Lake varieties started being used for canning and freezing in the
>>> 1950's and then the shift really took place in the 1960's. My 
>>> grandfather
>>> who grew up on the farm in Central Illinois is the person who got me
>>> hooked
>>> on Kentucky Wonder beans for the garden and I used to sell quite a few 
>>> of
>>> them to supermarkets back in the 1970s.
>>>     I was looking at my 7 varieties of bush beans in the field last 
>>> night
>>> and salivating over the time when they will be ready in late June! YUM.
>>> Raw
>>> or cooked I love them. We are so late this year with all of the spring
>>> rains
>>> for Beans. I need to find a spot I can sneak some Scarlet Runners in for
>>> farmers market too.....
>>>            Grant
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of charliehill
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 6:29 AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Vavorite garden beans
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark the "Kentucky Wonders" beans I'm familiar with look a lot like the
>>> Roma
>>> you plant.  Funny thing, if you look up Kentucky Wonder on the Gurneys
>>> site
>>> the picture is not a flat bean.   I'm wondering if there are two
>>> different
>>> beans that folks call Kentucky wonders or if maybe  the Kentucky Wonder
>>> beans I like are kin to the Roma bean.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Mark Greer" <markagreer at embarqmail.com>
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>>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:10 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Vavorite garden beans
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mike,
>>>> As someone who has planted green beans in my garden for the last 17
>>>> years,
>>>> I
>>>> like two varieties. We can about 50 quarts each year and eat lots more
>>>> during garden season. Blue Lake is a good one, either in the bush or
>>>> pole
>>>> varieties. They produce well, have good flavor, cans well, and no
>>>> strings.
>>>> I
>>>> also like one called Roma which has a flattened pod but you eat like 
>>>> any
>>>> other green bean. Same characteristics as the Blue Lake as far as
>>>> production, canning, taste, and no strings. Both varieties grow very
>>>> well
>>>> and I plant them in double rows about a foot apart. I do NOTHING else 
>>>> to
>>>> them until it is time to pick except push a hand cultivator along each
>>>> side
>>>> every couple weeks to discourage weeds. They are probably the easiest
>>>> plants
>>>> in our garden as far as the time it takes to plant and maintain them.
>>>> Blue Lake  http://gurneys.com/blue-lake-274-bush-beans/p/14137/
>>>> http://gurneys.com/blue-lake-pole-beans-/p/14202/
>>>> Roma  http://gurneys.com/product.asp?pn=14152&bhcd2=1274360419
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: <mpnc282 at juno.com>
>>>> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:19 AM
>>>> Subject: [AT] OT - Vavorite garden beans
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, OT, but I was wondering what variety of green beans you favor.
>>>>> As
>>>>> a small garden grower, I am interested in a continuously  productive
>>>>> plant, not like the big commercial growers that like all their beans 
>>>>> to
>>>>> come in at once. I know we have some vegetable farmers on the list,
>>>>> (HL)
>>>>> and would appreciate some input. Thanks, Mike
>>>>
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