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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Put out 8 (4 of each variety) transplants; got 2 small pods. I’ll try again next year, as this season was far from normal, and not just for us; everybody I’ve talked to had a very bad year.

I hope those bean seeds I sent did better for you than they did for us, after I bragged on them. They weren’t alone though, as the Navy Beans, Black Valentines, Henderson Baby Limas, and Florida Speckled Butterbeans didn’t do worth spit either.

My “75 day” melons were green and rotting on the vines, rather than ripening, at the 100-days after transplant mark. Potatoes got late blight. Only things that did well were the pickling cukes, pattypans, peas, and onions.


59 posted on 10/16/2011 5:36:38 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: ApplegateRanch
When it was time to plant the white greasy beans, it was evident that we were going into a drought ... I was already having to water everything planted. So, I still have the seeds and I am so anxious to plant them in the spring.

It was a highly unusual season for everybody I've been in contact with -- from Montana to the east coast and everything south of that.

In spite of the horrible heat and drought, my scarlet hull peas and zipper cream peas produced heavily, as did my speckled lima beans. In fact, my lima beans started producing in early August and they are still filling out pods.

My cantaloupes on the trellis did very well, but all of my squashes were horrible and many died before they made anything. The cukes were okay, but nothing special.

There were so many things that I didn't plant at all. I simply couldn't imagine why I should try to grow something else when everything I had planted previously was struggling to make it.

60 posted on 10/17/2011 6:34:40 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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