[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

[David Bruce]

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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