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

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> 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.
   Corn starts slow.  If I had used my head for something besides a hat rack
I would have wiated till two weeks after I planted the corn to put the pole
beans in.  Two weeks wont hurt the bean season but would let the corn get a
start.

> 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.
   I think they will be alright.  I have cherry toms in and they are already
getting blossoms.  Some of the pole beans have brown things on them that
alomst look like pods but that is impossible at this early date.

> Looks like it's going to be a hot one today, it's supposed to hit 95
> degrees by 10AM.
   Where are you at 95.  I am 200 miles NW. of New York city.  We got up to
about 82 today.
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.
You just gave me an idea for you.  Try putting an onion set or two with the
pole beans.  Maybe that will keep them away.  Onions are not very big but
they are very hungry.
I will
> be frost free (usually) reliably until the middle of November and so
> that should give the tomatoes plenty of time to mature.
   I put in some tomato seeds last year and was surprise that they did
mature.  They were so late that I hadn't even staked them thinking they
wouldn't make it.  Was I wrong?

Jim allAn zone 5 New York State
Northeastern USA.


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