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too late to plant pole bean seeds?
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Posted by chrisa Bklyn (z7) (My Page) on Sun, Jun 15, 08 at 13:15
my landlords just finally put in the fence I have been waiting for before I could plant in front of it. I want to grow pole beans on trellises up the fence, but the seeds (they were old) i started inside this spring never germinated (not really surprised). Is it too late to start them from seed outside? Or does anyone have extra pole bean plants to share or trade?
Thanks,
Chris |
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RE: too late to plant pole bean seeds?
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| Chris... I've been reluctant to respond to your post as I've never grown pole beans, but given that no one else has responded I will say that my perception is that both peas and beans are short time to harvest crops, some folks grow multiple in a given season, and unlike peas I think most beans are fairly heat tolerant so why not give it go? Best, Gaby |
RE: too late to plant pole bean seeds?
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- Posted by chrisa Bklyn (z7) (My Page) on
Sun, Jul 27, 08 at 19:19
Hi Gaby! Thanks for answering :) Wow. This forum has gotten vacant over the last 5 years or so!
I know bush beans get stagger-planted for continual harvest, but I think pole beans are different. Yet strangely this doesn't seem to be a subject directly addressed by my piles of gardening references. I would have just tried but every seed source I stopped by was out of pole beans. I thought it might be a sign :)
Thanks again,
Chris |
RE: too late to plant pole bean seeds?
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| Hey Chris.... I think the things that get staggered plantings are because they have a determinate harvest time, so you stagger plantings to have a continuous harvest. Perhaps pole beans are indeterminate, but that wouldn't mean you couldn't plant them later, would just been you won't have a long harvest season? This is, as I said before, purely conjecture on my part. Too bad you couldn't find any seeds and see how it turned out. Best, Gaby |
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