My bad, I meant 'Blue Speckled Tepary' beans were the tepary variety I planted, 'Holstein' is the cowpea variety I planted (the other one whose growth habit I'm confused about). Gosh, I shouldn't do posts so late into the night! I think I'll poke in some bamboo with the teparies and see if it is of any benefit.
Thank you @meadow !
Garafal Oro, Jembo Polish, Solwezi, Canon City, Uzice Speckled Wax, Malachite Pole, Tuscarora Bread, Kiagara Mame, Whipple, White Cloud Cannellini, Mont D'Or, Buckskin Girl, Victoria Brown Eyes, Major Cook's, Indian Woman Yellow, Nez Perce, Peruano, Lilascheke, Gold of Bacau, Florelle Fleiderfarben, Papa de Roja, Monstrance, African Cave, Ping Zebra, Peruano, Grandma Nellie's Mushroom, Migliorucci, Ice bean, Inca Pea Bean, Lilloet, Yer Fasuli, Flor de Mayo, Gaucho, Soissons Verte, Tamila, Hoj Prinsesse, Schwarze Dalmatin, Giant Nilgiri, Worcester Indian, Maria Zeller, Sultan's Green Crescent, Bis, Brejo, Vieux Flippe.......list is not totally completed yet....Wow, @Ridgerunner, are these current photos? If so, are your beans already grown that far - almost ready for harvesting??
he can get a full crop in while we're still getting ready to plant. i'm just now seeing the first sprouts coming up of Purple Dove beans i planted days ago. we're due for some cool weather but no freezing so i think we might be ok for further plantings. i have so much to do though i don't think it will hurt much if i wait another week.
Yeah, I'm a bit south of New Orleans so a totally different climate than most others deal with. I generally start beans, corn, and such the first of March but this year was a bit cool so I waited until mid-March. I can get a second crop in but with our summers they usually don't do well. My Blue Jay bush snap beans have just started to produce and I'll probably be eating fresh corn next weekend.
I will be very interested to read that!! Very curious about the study on pre-soaking.Thank you @meadow !
Yes, I eventually found some information too that mentions this difference between light seeded beans and dark coated ones! I'll post the link since there was some other information in there that I thought was neat. Like the devastating effects (according to this study) of soaking beans before planting in terms of long term growth and production. Interestingly, they said that fava beans are the opposite - pre-soaking prior to planting apparently causes them to be super producers!
@BeanieQueen, here is my planting list for this bean growing year. I have nothing more to do on this Sunday morning except wait for the grass around my house to dry out so I can mow here today. I think the actual count is 132.
