primitives discuss pole beans

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Oh my.

Bigmack  (1000+ posts)        Sun Sep-18-11 11:23 PM
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Shameless plug for pole beans....

I've grown the best pole beans of my life this year... and this year we didn't even have much summer in the Seattle area.

I grew "Goldmarie" from Territorial Seeds.

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/11578/pole_bean_...

They are a Romano type... flatter than Blue Lakes.

Very "bean-ey" flavor... no strings, no matter how big they are!

Delicious!

And very productive.

KT2000  (1000+ posts)      Sun Sep-18-11 11:44 PM
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2. Having Romanos for dinner tonight - main course. They are my favorite bean. These came from Eastern WA though.

Let's hear it for the beans!

lumberjack_jeff  (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-19-11 12:17 AM
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3. We've canned dozens of quarts of pole beans this year.

Yeah, baby.

pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts)        Mon Sep-19-11 02:41 AM
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5. YAY! blue lake pole beans. but mine did poorly this year. but maybe today's rain will help. might get another month of beans. if not for me, for my cat. my cat LOVES BEANS.

I'll bet that cat farts a lot.

Fly by night (1000+ posts)      Mon Sep-19-11 07:58 AM
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7. My "old school" Kentucky Wonders have produced for three months and ...

... my second planting of them is starting to produce also. This is the first time for me to do a second planting of summer veggies besides sweet corn. I am harvesting new cukes, yellow squash, tomatoes, basil and onions -- in addition to pole beans -- from those later plantings; and am continuing to harvest basil, tomatoes (some of my plants are over ten feet tall), bell and chile peppers AND pole beans from my spring plantings. I also have some beautiful field pea plants as a second planting but they haven't flowered yet so they may end up just being green manure.

I am amazed at how well my Garden did with the ridiculous heat and almost no rain we had here in middle Tennessee in July and August. Being down in my deep hollow (where the Garden is shaded except for about 5-6 hours a day), watering diligently and mulching with 500 bags of leaves and 400 bales of straw (all donated) did the trick, I do believe.

Thank the Goddess for our Gardens. Pole beans, huzzah!

[GOBUCKS]

Pole beans like Kentucky Wonder are excellent, but no species of bean has ever been developed that can match Old Dutch or white half runners.

Half runners cooked with a hunk of bacon are the finest green vegetable on earth, in my opinion.

They're a bitch to pick and string, but the work is well worth it.

I grew tons of them before moving to red state hell, where the deer eat everything green that sprouts.