[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

[Cecil Bearden]

charliehill wrote:
> I should have said not much activity there.   There were some messages but 
> they were weeks old.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans
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>> Cecil,  I've been over to the forum a few times and never see any sign of
>> activity there.  Haven't tried it in the last couple of months.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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>> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:05 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans
>>
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>>> Grant Brians wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 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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>>>>         
>>> Grant I also noticed no real traffic on the list.  I wonder if it might
>>> be everyone has gone over to the forum..  I don't seem to have good luck
>>> with forums and have not signed up.  Hate to lose contact with my
>>> friends as I open up my mail every morning to see how everyone is
>>> doing.  I don't take the newspaper, as it is a lot of trouble to go to
>>> the corner to get it in the morning.
>>> Cecil in OKla
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Thanks Charlie:
I get used to a way of doing things and lately it has really become 
difficult to learn new ways, especially with computers and electronics.  
Gettin' old I guess..
Cecil in OKla