I really messed up. I was so impatient to replant my starter tomatoes and peppers outside that I went too soon. Cold nights killed most of them. I have to start from seed. A question; I have trellises for my peas and snow peas to climb on. Do I need to do that for stringbeans?
Tomatoes, sweet peppers, hot peppers, okra, cucumbers, lettuce, broccoli, string beans, beets, celery, carrots, spinach, peas, snow peas, onions. I love to watch things grow.
Is this true? "Runner beans twine around their supports in a clockwise direction. Pole beans twine in a counter-clockwise direction." Sounds fishy to me. I ask because my grandmother always called them "runners" instead of pole beans. I doubt she knew the difference.
... so these beans can read clocks? I'm amazed. I wasn't aware that vegetables can be so smart. I do know they can be religious. Never heard of lettuce pray?
I have never observed that so I can't say, but I grow runner beans on a fence and pole beans on a trellis. Pole beans grow taller than runners for me, but that may not always be true. Runner beans seem to be easier to grow in our climate, too. Runner beans are also generally prettier as well.
Beats me. I thought runner beans and pole beans were the same thing. When I was a kid my dad had fields of bush beans because who's going to put up trellises on 20 acres of beans.
My grandfather planted mostly bush beans, even with just a quarter acre garden. At least a couple of times he planted the vining type beans in with the corn. The beans used the corn stalks as poles. Seems like that could be trouble. Is that common? I remember, only because I had to help pick them both ways.
I have seen lots of gardens with corn mingled with "climbing" vegetables. Not sure it makes sense in a farming situation, though.
What makes sense for a garden, does not always make sense for large-scale commercial farming. Pole beans and runner beans have to be harvested manually in most cases, but continue to bear over the entire growing season. That is a benefit for he gardener but not the farmer. Farmers want beans that all "ripen" at once and can be machine harvested. Beans climbing corn stalks is a method of multi-cropping developed by Native Americans centuries ago as the corn stalk provided a trellis upon which the beans could climb. The third of the "Three Sisters" was the vining squash plant that was planted among the corn and beans and which provided a mulch that suppressed weeds and maintained moisture in the soil.
I've seen that recommended. I don't know if it's purely to save space, or if they're complimentary regarding the nutrients each needs and each returns to the soil.
Yeah, it's pretty much to get two crops on the same piece of land. Plus, the bean plants have something to climb on. A lot of people will plant radishes in the same area that they plant other crops as well, because radishes grow so fast that they don't get in the way.