What Did You Do In The Garden?

[digitS']

. It is not too late to plant bush beans, is it?

Better not be!

I often have my biggest planting of bush beans after I can get the pea vines cleared away and using that soil. Harvesting the peas has just started! ... when it says 60 days to maturity on a packet of bean seed, they really do mean 60 days at this time of year, GWR .

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

60 days may be for fresh eating, but i don't know any beans that are ready that quick other than perhaps the teparies or some very odd ones like chia or something? educate me if you have any shorter season for dry beans beans... i'm always interested in shorter season beans. i think my shortest day beans are about 80 days, unless disease or conditions cause them to die back early.

i do know that some growers will intentionally cut and winnow the bean plants to get them dry in time for harvest instead of letting nature take it's course. that's a whole different, um, can of worms.

 

[flowerbug]

for another dill use, if you like crunchy beans, make them like you would make dill pickles but use fresh beans instead. very chewy and satisfying. i only put up a few quarts of them last year, but i hope to do about a half dozen to a dozen for this year. i like having something pickled in the middle of winter and a change from the other pickles. bread and butter pickles are good too, but i don't like to eat a huge amount of those.

 

[Zeedman]

80 days is about the fastest dry bean I've grown too. Some of the cowpeas can be even faster, if given enough heat... seems to be plenty of that this year.

My snap bean crop (Fortex) failed last year, and I had so been looking forward to trying dilly beans. This years snap crop (Emerite) is looking very good, the first buds are already appearing. Emerite is very firm & straight-podded, a good canner... I'm really hoping that there will be enough to make a lot of dilly beans, after we've frozen enough green beans for the winter.

 

[digitS']

Dilly beans sounds good but I don't make pickles and haven't grown beans specifically for drying the last few years.

The Rattlesnake pole beans fill that niche but I will only have a few after the fresh snap bean season.

DW likes Jade bush beans and Pinetree lists them as 57 days.

Steve

 

[Collector]

Our tenderette bush beans are abysmal this year. We planted then over planted to fill in the gaps and still the rows are sparse really sparse. We ordered the seed from Sandhill like always , just not having luck so far. The turkey craws are doing good climbing up the trellis, the seed also came from sand hill. The black coat runner beans are also a failure . We dug up that row to plant other things. What we found was some seed had sprouted but never made it to the surface. There are I think four plants out there growing so we will see what happens. We could use some heat for a couple weeks to get the garden cooking, not sure that will happen soon though.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Better not be!

I often have my biggest planting of bush beans after I can get the pea vines cleared away and using that soil. Harvesting the peas has just started! ... when it says 60 days to maturity on a packet of bean seed, they really do mean 60 days at this time of year, GWR .

Steve

I am going to pick up more seed today. I planted Contender bush beans this year and they are the healthiest and strongest plants. Usually I plant Jade, but I forgot to order.

 

[Collector]

Also the deer found our garden grr. They helped themselves to some of the cabbages most of the sunflowers and tasted most of everything else. Angie went out and picked up enough deer netting to cover most of the garden and that has stopped the the midnight browsing. I have all the components for the garden fence and all the holes are dug. My work has already moved to 6 days a week can see to can’t see, so I am really pinched for time. I am going to set the corners in concrete today so I can pull string lines on Wednesday and set the rest of the posts. Then maybe next Sunday I can start stretching the wire.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Our tenderette bush beans are abysmal this year. We planted then over planted to fill in the gaps and still the rows are sparse really sparse. We ordered the seed from Sandhill like always , just not having luck so far. The turkey craws are doing good climbing up the trellis, the seed also came from sand hill. The black coat runner beans are also a failure . We dug up that row to plant other things. What we found was some seed had sprouted but never made it to the surface. There are I think four plants out there growing so we will see what happens. We could use some heat for a couple weeks to get the garden cooking, not sure that will happen soon though.

A friend from church told me their beans did not come up. I planted pole beans in 2 places and I had a lot of gaps and went back and filled in and still had gaps. The Contender bush beans came up great though. My pole beans are probably 2 years old.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Also the deer found our garden grr. They helped themselves to some of the cabbages most of the sunflowers and tasted most of everything else. Angie went out and picked up enough deer netting to cover most of the garden and that has stopped the the midnight browsing. I have all the components for the garden fence and all the holes are dug. My work has already moved to 6 days a week can see to can’t see, so I am really pinched for time. I am going to set the corners in concrete today so I can pull string lines on Wednesday and set the rest of the posts. Then maybe next Sunday I can start stretching the wire.

So sorry that happened after all the work you have done. I hope the netting keeps them out.