[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

[Grant Brians]

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

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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