Re: [gardeners] This weekend
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 10:45:35 -0700
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>The fava beans were an experiment that won't be repeated I'm afraid. Takes
>240 days to full maturity and we can grow two or three crops of other beans
>and peas in that time. In addition the favas have to be shelled twice, once
>to get rid of the outer pod and again for the inner pod. Time consuming for
>what you end up with. It's back to the good old Amurican beans and peas for
>us.
George, you must have gotten the longest running fava bean seeds in the
world. Abundant Life has six varieties, ranging from 65 to 100 days to
maturity. They're frost resistant, so I tried growing them very early in
the spring a couple of years ago. Interesting blossoms. Pods had just
been set when I noticed that overnight, all were pouting as if they'd been
sprayed with a herbicide. Tiny little punctures in every seed pod. Have
no idea what they were, just yanked out the crop.
>Picked up some T-posts the other day and will be driving them and hanging
>the nylon netting on them today plus another round of tilling and will be
>putting the Tumbler tomatoes in their hanging baskets today. Will probably
>hang the baskets in my "greenhouse" for another week and then hang them
>around the eves of the house where they will get afternoon sun all summer.
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>What's cooking in everyone's gardens right now?
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>George
There's nothing like a blanket of snow to squelch thoughts of early garden
planting. All through Jan and early Feb our temps were above normal, then
about a week ago, nighttime temps dropped to below normal, and they're in
the mid to low 20s at night. Takes a looong time to warm up to 40 the next
day. Still have bunching onions and leeks in the garden, but it's going to
be quite a while until the garden dries out sufficiently to rototill it.
That's all right. I've got a lot of garden cleanup to do. Margaret
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