[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

[charliehill]

I'm shocked that I don't have bugs.  I've already got the sevin dust ready 
but haven't needed it.  But then again, maybe I need to wear my glasses the 
next time I go to check!  grins


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans


> Charlie,
>
> Maybe you will help the rest of us in the state <g>
>
> My Kentucky Wonder beans are up and already drawing the pests from the
> other beans.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> On 5/24/2010 11:31 AM, charliehill wrote:
>> Grant I got 1 message on Sat and 4 on Sunday and then yours.  It's that 
>> time
>> of year when folks are busy I guess.
>> I'm surprised, almost shocked, that I haven't had any insect problems 
>> with
>> my potatoes, tomatoes and onions.
>> I'm sure I will now that I've opened my big mouth.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Grant Brians"<sales at heirloom-organic.com>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion 
>> group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:19 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans
>>
>>
>>
>>> We certainly have our problems with insects here in California whether
>>> chemical or organic production is occurring - my bane is flea beetles
>>> (they
>>> bite little holes in the Brassica leaves.) Thankfully, Japanese Beetles
>>> are
>>> not a pest in our area. I hear they are VERY destructive....
>>>       By the way, I have not seen an actual list post since Saturday and
>>> only 6 over the entire weekend - is it only me?
>>>          Grant Brians
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of David Bruce
>>> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 4:36 AM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans
>>>
>>>
>>> Grant,
>>> In my part of NC (almost the foothills just northwest of Winston-Salem)
>>> it is pretty common to have multiple plantings of bush beans or white
>>> half runner beans about 2 weeks apart until late August.  My experience
>>> is in a home garden setting but I would expect a similar routine in more
>>> commercial settings.  We are just a bit cooler than Charlie's area but
>>> it still gets quite hot and dry in the summer.  I grow the half runner
>>> beans as pole beans so I generally limit myself to two plantings spaced
>>> about a month apart.  I grow some Kentucky Wonder but the usually end up
>>> being a trap crop for Japanese Beetles.
>>>
>>> David
>>> NW NC
>>>
>>> On 5/20/2010 9:22 PM, Grant Brians wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
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