[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

[Cecil Bearden]

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