• Ping Songbird: Green been planting question

    From songbird@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 9 21:51:06 2021
    T wrote:
    Hi Songbird,

    I got my green bean seeds in the mail few weeks ago.
    They sent millions of them.

    How do you plant your seeds? How far apart? Do you
    expect the prune them out? Yada, Yada, Yada.

    it depends upon what kind they are.

    the soil needs to be warm enough, past all chances of
    frost.

    i'm going to assume you are talking about bush beans.

    i plant them in rows with 8-12cm between them. i don't
    thin them out. if they don't sprout or some get eaten by
    rabbits or whatever the first week or two i'll replant and
    hope those make it.

    i just scrape a long straight shallow trench in the garden
    and walk down the row and drop seeds at the spacing i want
    and then go back with the hoe and bury them about 3cm deep
    but perhaps deeper or more shallow based upon seed size and
    my experience with those beans. once i have them buried i
    walk along and tamp the soil firm with the hoe and then
    water them in and then i keep the soil damp enough that they
    will sprout. i spray the rows with the hose once or twice
    a day to make sure they don't dry out. once they are up and
    growing i can back off watering gradually to encourage the
    roots to go deeper.

    for me we don't usually get the beans planted here until
    around mid-to-late May and into early June. i have a few
    that i want to try planting earlier, but it is often hard for
    me to get everything done on time.


    songbird

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  • From T@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 9 18:24:25 2021
    Hi Songbird,

    I got my green bean seeds in the mail few weeks ago.
    They sent millions of them.

    How do you plant your seeds? How far apart? Do you
    expect the prune them out? Yada, Yada, Yada.

    Many thanks,
    -T

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  • From T@21:1/5 to songbird on Tue Mar 9 20:51:49 2021
    On 3/9/21 6:51 PM, songbird wrote:
    T wrote:
    Hi Songbird,

    I got my green bean seeds in the mail few weeks ago.
    They sent millions of them.

    How do you plant your seeds? How far apart? Do you
    expect the prune them out? Yada, Yada, Yada.

    it depends upon what kind they are.

    the soil needs to be warm enough, past all chances of
    frost.

    i'm going to assume you are talking about bush beans.

    i plant them in rows with 8-12cm between them. i don't
    thin them out. if they don't sprout or some get eaten by
    rabbits or whatever the first week or two i'll replant and
    hope those make it.

    i just scrape a long straight shallow trench in the garden
    and walk down the row and drop seeds at the spacing i want
    and then go back with the hoe and bury them about 3cm deep
    but perhaps deeper or more shallow based upon seed size and
    my experience with those beans. once i have them buried i
    walk along and tamp the soil firm with the hoe and then
    water them in and then i keep the soil damp enough that they
    will sprout. i spray the rows with the hose once or twice
    a day to make sure they don't dry out. once they are up and
    growing i can back off watering gradually to encourage the
    roots to go deeper.

    for me we don't usually get the beans planted here until
    around mid-to-late May and into early June. i have a few
    that i want to try planting earlier, but it is often hard for
    me to get everything done on time.


    songbird


    Thank you!

    These are them:

    https://www.burpee.com/vegetables/beans/bean-bush-burpees-stringless-green-pod-prod000579.html

    Now to protect the sprouts from the earwigs

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 10 07:11:00 2021
    T wrote:
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    Now to protect the sprouts from the earwigs

    p.s. there are such things as earwig traps you can
    construct yourself. google it and do it.


    songbird

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 10 07:09:25 2021
    T wrote:
    ...
    These are them:

    https://www.burpee.com/vegetables/beans/bean-bush-burpees-stringless-green-pod-prod000579.html

    Now to protect the sprouts from the earwigs

    i don't have a problem with those here. once in a while a
    few cutworms get some of the seedlings, but my main pests are
    the chipmunks, rabbits and groundhogs and those i hunt to
    keep them from eating everything.


    songbird

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  • From T@21:1/5 to songbird on Thu Mar 11 15:18:45 2021
    On 3/10/21 4:11 AM, songbird wrote:
    T wrote:
    ...
    Now to protect the sprouts from the earwigs

    p.s. there are such things as earwig traps you can
    construct yourself. google it and do it.


    songbird


    I do have them, but I only catch a small percentage
    of them

    I do not have issues with sprouts that are large,
    like zucchini.

    But with small sprouts, the earwigs eat and burrow
    right down to the seed, like eggplant, tomatillo,
    and onion.

    Are green bean seed sprouts large?

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 11 19:59:07 2021
    T wrote:
    ...
    Are green bean seed sprouts large?

    yes, so perhaps they'll be ok.


    songbird

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  • From T@21:1/5 to songbird on Sat Mar 13 14:13:46 2021
    On 3/11/21 4:59 PM, songbird wrote:
    T wrote:
    ...
    Are green bean seed sprouts large?

    yes, so perhaps they'll be ok.


    songbird


    Awesome! Thank you!

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  • From Mayayana@21:1/5 to T@invalid.invalid on Thu Apr 1 23:25:14 2021
    "T" <T@invalid.invalid> wrote

    | Awesome! Thank you!

    Me too!

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to Mayayana on Fri Apr 2 10:40:27 2021
    Mayayana wrote:
    "T" <T@invalid.invalid> wrote

    | Awesome! Thank you!

    Me too!

    if your garden has cutworms you may need to protect
    bean sprouts. sometimes chipmunks find certain ones
    attractive and ignore others completely (the edamame
    soybeans and a few others have been targetted here).


    songbird

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