[AT] OT - Favorite garden beans

[charliehill]

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>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Favorite garden beans


> 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
>
>
>> 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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