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Re: Garbanzo Beans

Re:

>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?

I thought I remembered something when you mentioned heat - found it. From
_Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties_, about chickpeas (garbanzos are a
kind of chickpea, right?):

"Unfortunately, they are also short-day plants. That is, they don't
flower until day length drops below a certain level. This means that  in
the United States they flower, if at all, only in late fall. In
addition, they need cool, moderate weather to flower."

She goes on to say that that means that they'd only be growable in  the
martime northwest in the US, but another one of my books disagrees - it
says that they're grown in the southeast in the winter. I don't know if
you could grow them in your area, but it seems clear that they won't
succeed in the summer.

Martha
mart@best.com

M. Wilson
mart@best.com

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