[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

[charliehill]

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" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans


> 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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