[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

Fri May 21 05:01:11 PDT 2010

While we are on the garden subject,  how late can I plant Sweet Potatoes 
here?  I've got some potatoes that are sprouting that I can use.

Charlie
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From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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> Thanks for the information guys.
>
> Charlie
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> From: "Mark Greer" <markagreer at embarqmail.com>
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>
>> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> 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
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>>
>>> 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
>>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>>> 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>
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>>>>> 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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