The Little Easy Bean Network - Get New Beans Varieties Nearly Free

[897tgigvib]

Oh, Honeycomb, be very careful transplanting the Beans. That's not the easiest way to start them inside. Beans are a difficult transplanter. Their roots' hairs break easily.

I started some of my beans inside, but I used a kind of setup that was made of coir, kind of like peat pots, but the material is coconut fiber. Even then, the roots stuck out after 3 weeks so I had to be careful.

The way it looks like you have them looks doable, but with great care.

 

[897tgigvib]

Mayaam, you can send an email to Russ and ask him. Down there in the south I'm sure that some beans will do extra well, and some might not like a hot summer.

 

[the1honeycomb]

My little garden is full I used up all the raised beds and the beans in the picture are in the containers that they will stay in. I read that Beans did great in container gardens I hope that is true!! I don't have any more room to build a raised bed for them until next year we are working hard to clear our property but it won't be done for planting this year.

I have been so excited about them I should have asked here.

 

[897tgigvib]

Oh I see Honeycomb. They should be ok as long as they have plenty of drain holes then

My mistake, It looked to my old eyes like they were in flats for transplanting.

 

[the1honeycomb]

I got nervous!!! This is my first real bean crop!!

 

[897tgigvib]

I'm sorry. Forgive me?

You happen to be in a state where there are some very special heirloom Bean varieties. Especially in the northwest part of North Carolina. They have kinds of snap beans called names like Greasy, and Cutshort that some farmers markets sell during mid summer to early fall. There would be folks at those farmer's markets who know lots about beans.

Sure wish I could visit that part of the country!

edited to say northwest, not northeast

 

[Southern Gardener]

Mayaam, you can send an email to Russ and ask him. Down there in the south I'm sure that some beans will do extra well, and some might not like a hot summer.

I'll e-mail him and ask him to send me a variety that he thinks will do well here. Thanks Marshall.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hey BJ

I'm surprised your beans aren't at your house already. I sent them on the 4th of May. I can send stuff overseas and have it arrive faster most often.

Yep Marshall is correct beans don't take to transplanting well at all like tomatoes. Beans are best planted by direct seeding into your garden when the weather is warm enough.

 

[the1honeycomb]

Glad I put them where I wanted them!!! and they seem to be the easiest just let them grow until the pods dry and then harvest if I have read my instructions right!! Here is loving my garden!!!

I do wish that people would post photos of their bean crops I think it is very interesting!!

 

[Blue-Jay]

My little garden on the prairie over 3,000 square feet. Here is a spot in that garden last year when the bush beans were at their peak on July 16, 2012. Then again close to the same spot in the garden on October 11th. There are still some dry pods on those dry bush vines to harvest. Living in a humid climate like most of us do in the midwest or around the gulf coast or even in the eastern part of the U.S. You can't just let all your pods dry and then go harvest them all at one time. When rain threatens I go out and harvest dry pods or ones that are even nearly so and get them out of the weather. A few days of good rain can ruin nice seed. Enough continual wet weather can even cause new bean seed to sprout. Not a good time of the year for beans to sprout in late summer or early autumn when they won't have enough time to mature another seed crop. If the weather is continuously dry I'll be harvesting dry pods about once a week, and that is a very big "if" in most years. Often in many years rain can threaten about every 4 or 5 days in late summer. With the size of my bean garden the job will take about 8 hours to go through all the rows once and collect the dry pods, and that's just for the bush beans. Then I got to go back the next day and harvest dry pods from the pole beans.