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Re: Purple beans

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Thank you for the concept in planting corn, beans, and squash.  I know it is
too late for me here in Fresno, Ca.  to plant that now...but I am going to
file this in my gardening information, for next spring.

You don't sound like an idiot at all.....as far as I am concerned, anyone
who thinks they have all of the answers, is the idiot.

Peg

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Meunier <tmeunier@ix.netcom.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 12:49 PM
Subject: 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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