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Re: Purple beans

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Hi Cyn,

We've never had much luck pulling beans and transplanting them.   We gave up
on starting them and then transplanting them because they always seemed to
die.   We now plant 'em straight into the garden and watch 'em for all the
critters that like to eat the sprouts.   Anyway, I'm thinking maybe you
amended the soil TOO much for beans.   They get their nitrogen from the air,
and if you give 'em too much in the soil, they produce less.

This spring there was a lot of buzz here on the list about the "Three
Sisters" method of growing corn, beans, and squash in a complementary
arrangement.   Corn stalk lets the beans climb, beans provide nitrogen for
the corn and squash, and the broad leaves of the squash serve to keep the
soil cool and moist.  A friend of mine tried it (I didn't - corn yields vs.
the amount of water I'd pour on it to keep it alive here in Texas would be
environmentally and fiscally irresponsible of me) and the whole deal got
scorched.  I'd love to hear feedback from some of the folks who tried this.
Maybe their advice will be to leave the beans planted where they are, and
plant the corn right smack dab in the middle of 'em.

Anyway, if that soil is overnitrogenated, the one crop that would sure take
care of it is corn.

Tom
Austin, TX
Not ridiculously hot today, for once.

Disclaimer:  I'm an idiot, so anything I say may be completely wrong.   I
take no offense to anyone who wishes to proclaim me an idiot publicly, so
long as sound argument and evidence is provided.


-----Original Message-----
From: CynMob@aol.com <CynMob@aol.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Purple beans


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>And you thought you'd seen the last of this subject....
>My purple bean plants have never gotten very large -- less than a foot tall
>even now.  Each one produced 6-8 beans.  I'm thinking this is probably
>attributable to operator error -- they're not square footed, the soil
>probably isn't amended enough, etc etc... heck, it was my first time.
>Anyway, I'm considering giving up on them and putting a 4x4 box in that
spot
>for winter crops.  My extension guy says I can plant corn now -- southern
>california -- and that purple beans are on the northern side of my plot,
just
>where I'd have put tall crops in the beginning if I'd thought about it
>instead of going hog wild.
>I hate to pull up something that looks healthy, albeit beanless.  Any
>thoughts?  Transplant them to one of my boxes now full of gorgeous soil?
Or
>just bite the bullet and summarily execute them?
>Cyn
>
>
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