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Re: Jacob's Cattle Dry Bean Question

I've planted these for the first time this year also.  I'm not sure I'm of
much help, though.  We direct seeded in mid March, but we had heavy early
predation from snails.  I finally got a copper barrier up, and they're
recovering, and beginning to flower already, but they are only 6-8 inches
high.  I suspect that mine are stunted by their early abuse, poor guys.

Regards,
Laurie
San Francisco

>Is anybody else planting Jacob's Cattle dry beans this year? I planted mine
>early (Feb) and they have already flowered and begun to form pods. My problem
>is with the size of these plants. I planted 9 per sqft and they are so big
>(2' in height) that they are crowding into the 8 squares around them. Some
>are covered as much as 6". Could they this be happening becuase I planted
>them very early in the season and they had to grow larger in order to get
>more sunlight? Or is this variety normaly this large? If they are normaly
>this large then I will simply plant fewer per sqft.
>
>Kurt
>

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