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Re: Pole Beans & Corn, and direct sowing tomato seeds

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Hi Jim,

I planted scarlet runner beans the same time as corn and the beans are
growing a mile a minute and the corn is still just poking along. I
thought that it would be the other way around because the corn I planted
is a novelty type from Gurney's and is supposed to be fifteen feet high,
I am suprised that the corn is only a six inches tall at this point. 

I think I just have to let the beans tough it out for now and I'll twirl
them around the base of the corn in some sort of jumbled mess until the
corn grows to an appreciable height. 

Maybe the thing to do for next year's Three Sisters Garden is to choose
faster maturing corn and shorter pole beans. I grew scarlet runners last
year and they grew at least a dozen feet long, and that was in half day
shade. I grew them on the fence above a small corner hosta garden in my
patio. They looked great and despite being in half day shade they still
made a gazillion blooms, really brightened everything up.

Looks like it's going to be a hot one today, it's supposed to hit 95
degrees by 10AM. I am doing another gardening "experiment" and have
direct sowed some heirloom tomato seeds. I had made a really nice
trellis wall and planted it with pole beans (twice now) and the slugs
eat them, or the birds get them. But the slugs and birds don't go after
the tomato seedlings, maybe it's their strong scent that keeps the pests
off them. I put a few seeds of a separate variety at the base of each
pole and when they germinate I'll thin them to one tomato per pole, the
poles are about a foot apart so the spacing should work nicely. I will
be frost free (usually) reliably until the middle of November and so
that should give the tomatoes plenty of time to mature.

Trudi


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