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Late planting of beans
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Posted by ruthieg__tx z8 TX (My Page) on Sat, Oct 31, 09 at 20:27
| don't remember exactly when I planted them but seems like it was just before the middle of Sept. I remember thinking that I was running a little late getting them in the ground but I picked the first mess of beans today and the plants are loaded so I'll surely get some more. It cools off pretty good at night but we don't usually get a freeze this early. All my greens and tomatoes and beets etc etc are all doing great. I hope to pick a bunch of peppers tomorrow to make some cowboy candy. |
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RE: Late planting of beans
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This year, at least for here has been the weirdest on record for veggies and fruit maturity.
I am still picking red raspberries, never in the decade or so I have grown them have I been able to continue getting thumb sized raspberries this late. Yesterday got another 1/2 quart and there are more on the canes to pick today. |
RE: Late planting of beans
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| I remember when you posted you had just planted them and were afraid it was too late. Glad to hear it worked Ruthie. I know you love your beans. ;) Dave |
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| ruthie, I'm officially envious. Lizzy, I'm envious of you too. It frozen here the first time nearly a month ago, and we've had a couple of hard freezes and one light snow. I still have collards out in the garden, but that's about all. Annie |
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| We are still eating fresh green beans I picked out of the garden last week, in S.E. Ohio. I always squeeze in one super late planting and play the odds. We have had cold nights for some time now, and several freezes and frosts, but just had a warm spell (Indian summer) after a week of cold. I protected the bushes during this spell and they made it. The plants were still lovely when I pulled them and harvested last week the tender, slender veggies. I didn't get enough to can like I did this time last year, because even though the plants have flowered and were flowering heavily, and not affected by freezing, you have to have pollinators and the bee activity was down from the cold when they blossomed. I am still getting some red raspberries this year too. |
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| Wow, to paraphrase Dinah Washington singing ... "What a difference a STATE makes ..." On our property here in Sequim, Washington, all we're growing is piles of fallen leaves! I love reading what others are growing and harvesting and putting up. Isn't this a great forum? Kathy |
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| Well, I am two zones cooler than Zone eight, and our leaves are falling too. ;-) The autumn garden isn't a popular thing with modern Americans, but it used to be. There are so many crops even in zones five and six a person can still be growing. I have celery, cabbage, carrots and broccoli still cranking none the worse for wear. The cole crops and carrots should be fine in the garden clear into mid to late December, as should be leeks. Most of my friends hurry up around the first frost and clear out all their produce and 'get the garden ready' to put it to bed until spring. I'm not in any hurry. I grow all my cold weather crops in one end of the garden, so I can put the rest fallow but still keep the winter garden running. It's hard to even find veggie starts or seeds here when it comes time to put in the autumn garden. ' Cold frames also come in handy for squeezing in the last flushes of lettuce and radishes and scallions. You can really push the envelope with just a little modification. |
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Trust me, I am really suprised about the raspberries. We have had hard frost and one snow storm with 3 inches of wet snow.
The Swiss Chard is still going, I wish I grabbed all the rhubarb before the snow they are soft now and I didn't freeze enough. |
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| My 8yo came home with seedlings that they planted at school. We have beans growing, a pumpking blooming and some broccoli. It will interesting to see if anything makes it to maturity. But we've been having a warm fall. |
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| On Friday I sowed broad beans (favas), planted garlic, red onion sets and some left over lettuce seedlings and sowed a row of a new lettuce for me: "Arctic King". I always live in hope. Currently we are harvesting kohl rabi, curly kale, red Russian kale, and Swiss chard. I don't have space for Brussels sprouts, swedes other brassicas, leeks ,parsnips and carrots but neighbours are growing all of these. I picked the last courgettes (zucchini) last Monday before comitting the plants to the compost heap. Autumn raspberries are also still going. |
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- Posted by skeip 4b / 5a WI (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 17:14
| Here in south central WI I still have Brussels Sprouts, Kale, Mustard Greens, Daikon, Lettuce and Spinach. What a treat fresh Spinach is in November!! Temps in the mid 20's did everything else in about a month ago, including a late planting of beans, they were flowering and just setting fruit, too. But my late planting of greens are still going strong. |
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| Here in N. CA we have spinach,lettuce,beets,sugar snap peas, broccoli and cabbage seedlings. We still have some tomatoes and lots of peppers growing and some of the peppers are still flowering. I would like to take them out so I could find room for my onion seedlings. I guess I will pull out the tomatoes and use that space. I could pot up some of the nicer peppers and keep them on my back porch. We won't get much frost until January and even then I can protect things by keeping them covered up or by putting out Christmas tree lights to keep them cozy. |
RE: Late planting of beans
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| Mine are just starting to flower, so I planted another row. It's too hot here for beans in the summer. |
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| I forget what kind they were ...I have it written down somewhere but just don't have time to look through the stuff on my desk for the calendar. I know they were not Rattlesnake because I lost my rattlesnake seed and didn't plant them this year...Woe is me. Actually what happend is I "thought" I was planting Rattlesnake's earlier in the year but they were something else. Everything is doing really well at the moment. |
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