I sheet composted last years leaves in a section of my garden. I tilled it in and am going to put in some Bush Beans, Contender. It has an attractive maturity of 45 days, hopefully before the Japanese beetles and stripped cucumber beetles become too active.
Today I started a presoak for the bean seed and added some Hydrogen Peroxide H2O2 to the soaking seeds. at the rate of 1 oz 3% to 1 pint of water. At the time I Plant I will damp with a bit of water and kelp and bean innoculant. Later today I will set out some irrigation tubing. I might plant this evening.
While its actually a bit early, I think I need to get the beans in ASAP. 85F on Sunday and warm most of the week.
**Here is a technical article that discusses Hydrogen Peroxide and seed germination.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4740362/#B109
**I put a banana peel in the soak water it to see if the ethalyne from the peel would help.
‘Contender’ is a GREAT bush Green Bean. Don’t forget that you can plant beans in succession. ‘Contender’ is also a great late-season bean, but ANY green bean is better than no green beans. ;)
I plant ‘Saychelles’ which is a green Pole Bean. Slender, uniform pods, doesn’t get woody or stringy if you neglect to pick each week (sometimes each day!) and is an AAS award winner.
https://www.jungseed.com/product/J01186/499
Another fun pole bean is, ‘Lazy Housewife.’
(Full disclosure: ‘Vermont Bean Seed Company’ is also owned by Jung’s.)
“75-80 Day. Pole. 2015 Bean of the Year. This triple purpose pole bean can be used as a snap, shell (90 days) or dry bean depending on when you harvest, and was one of the first to be completely stringless. For these reasons, it is well suited to the ‘lazy’ because there is little work or timing involved. Medium-green pods are 4-5” long with distinctive shiny white seeds.”
https://www.vermontbean.com/product/V01047/208
I’m just telling you this because I’ve pretty much grown them all. ;)
Haha - that and 189 other links if I ever got time!
I found a more general article - it’s most interesting, for those of us just starting out with trying to improve germination / early growth...
https://toddsseeds.com/germinate-seeds-hydrogen-peroxide/