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Garbanzo Beans

Fellow SQFT'ers,

I tried planting garbanzo beans for the first time this year.  It has been
an abysmal failure.  I'm looking for advice for next year.  I planted two
squares of them at the normal spacing for bush beans, 9 per square foot.  I
did not inoculate them with bacteria.  They came up fine and seemed to be
doing well for about a month and a half.  Then, they just gradually died.
I tried adjusting watering and fertilizing, but to no avail.  The leaves
steadily died up the vine until the whole plant was gone.

My questions are these:
1. Are these beans finicky about water?  It has been quite a hot, dry
summer here in MD.  Is it possible that in my efforts, I overcompensated?

2.  Is it likely that not inoculating them with nitrogen-fixing bacteria
contributed to the plants' failure?  I have grown other kinds of beans in
the past without inoculating them and have not had problems before.

3.  Are these beans sensitive to soil pH?  I have looked in all of my
books, and have been unable to find an answer to this one.  Our soil here
tends to be quite acid, and even though these were planted in a raised bed,
the soil is probably still acidic.

Thanks for all of the help.


- Vickie

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