Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:13 pm And, Super Marconi, by far my favorite bean, is not heat tolerant at all, compared to just about all beans that I've trialed. Expect flowering to start somewhere just over 50 days after sowing, harvesting about 14 days later. If you can estimate when your weather will be the best early or late in the season, use that 50 days to flowering as a gauge as to when to plant.

Thanks for the Super Marconi information about heat tolerance. That explains why the few I've tried the past two seasons never thrived. I have 8 seeds left to use on on a single pole but I think I'll now use that pole for another variety. I was planning to sow on 4/20 and 50 days to flowering plus two weeks for the beans to make would put first pick around Jun 23. My weather data for this property shows it is not uncommon for streaks of mid to upper 90's to occur around then. Or not. Mid June and beyond is a roll of the dice.

I got a few super Marconi seeds in the swap. I might give them a try in the fall.

I bought a couple of bags of Anasazi beans from the grocery store to plant a few along with some other types to see what happens.

While I don't record temps, basically anything over 90 shuts down all bean production (pollination), here. Mid to high 80s is sketchy, low 80s is fine. Super Marconi does great in the high 70s, like the summerless summer that I had about 15 years ago.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:03 am I bought a couple of bags of Anasazi beans from the grocery store to plant a few along with some other types to see what happens.

Got a pic? Likely in your area, you have the real Anasazi. Up north, sometimes Jacob's Cattle is sold as Anasazi.

Here, Anasazi vines grow to about 6 feet long. It is extremely prolific, and one of the easiest dry beans to shell, having very clean defect free seeds, if harvesting during dry weather. If I remember correctly, sometimes a dry pod will split open on the vine.

I hear that there is a bush version of Anasazi, but I have never encountered it.

Tormato wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:33 am

worth1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:03 am I bought a couple of bags of Anasazi beans from the grocery store to plant a few along with some other types to see what happens.

Got a pic? Likely in your area, you have the real Anasazi. Up north, sometimes Jacob's Cattle is sold as Anasazi.

Here, Anasazi vines grow to about 6 feet long. It is extremely prolific, and one of the easiest dry beans to shell, having very clean defect free seeds, if harvesting during dry weather. If I remember correctly, sometimes a dry pod will split open on the vine.

I hear that there is a bush version of Anasazi, but I have never encountered it.

Adobe Milling

worth1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:53 am

Tormato wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:33 am

worth1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:03 am I bought a couple of bags of Anasazi beans from the grocery store to plant a few along with some other types to see what happens.

Got a pic? Likely in your area, you have the real Anasazi. Up north, sometimes Jacob's Cattle is sold as Anasazi.

Here, Anasazi vines grow to about 6 feet long. It is extremely prolific, and one of the easiest dry beans to shell, having very clean defect free seeds, if harvesting during dry weather. If I remember correctly, sometimes a dry pod will split open on the vine.

I hear that there is a bush version of Anasazi, but I have never encountered it.

Adobe Milling
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Anasazi, they is.

Emerite pole filet beans doing great. Gave 10 ounces to my folks a couple of days ago and this morning we have 15 ounces for ourselves. Watch your step, though, when going out to pick the beans or cucumbers. This micrurus tener Texas Coral Snake was between me and my crops. Good thing it is much more timid than its cousin the cobra.

WOW, a coral snake. You must be very cautious when peeking under the large leaves of plants, like winter squash. Things like that, I try to safely capture, and release in a place where humans basically don't go, (and the key) on the other side of a large river.

Luckily, here, the timber rattlers are about 5 miles away in two separate dens, and they only have a seasonal range of movement of about 2 miles. I've seen 1 copperhead in my life, so I don't worry about them. In my garden, I'm always on the lookout for chipmunk burrows, which can turn into yellow jacket nests.

I encouraged the snake to slither over into the pampas grass. I get a lot of snakes in my garden. One reason I stopped using the polymer nets to try and prevent squirrels and rabbits from doing their depredations is that the nets caught a lot of snakes. If I got to them in time, I could carefully cut them free, but far too many died in my nets including my favorite local snake the Coach Whip.

I feel sorry for snakes. Feral hogs have been hard on them hereabouts. So has all the development. I try real hard not to harm any snakes.

Planted an eight foot double row of Emerite filet pole beans today. Overseeded a bit since the seeds were getting on the elderly side of life.

Pole bean window here begins February 10th, but the soil is warm as is the weather, worth the risk being too early. Can always replant.

Your Emerites look beautiful. My favorite filet green pole bean.

Double row of Eight feet of Emerite in the background of the 5’x10’ bed planted yesterday. Today, I planted about 3’ of French Gold and three of Carminat. Bed runs WNW-ESE on the long axis. This bed gets more filtered light closer to the summer solstice, but by then the beans should be about done. I’ll put some peppers out in front of the beans once the cool weather crops are done.

Going to have to cut some bamboo soon. Beans are up.

Stakes for beans cut and stuck.

Covered most of the new Emerite bean plants. These were just beginning to vine. Probably will not work, but thought it was worth the minimal effort just to see. Have spare seeds ready to go should these plants freeze.

Replanted the emerite pole beans today. A few of the covered beans survived the freeze and I let the best looking ones alone.

Replanted Emerite are up and at them. Maybe twelve covered plants survived the freeze on the 20th and in good enough condition for me to let them be. I’ll get to see if those first beans stay ahead on the latter batch.

The pole beans are beginning to climb. As far as I can tell, the survivors from the February 20th freeze have failed to thrive and have been surpassed by the second planting. There’s some Carminat beans in the mix as well. They have the purple tint.

Wind damage on the pole beans. Soil is moist. Temperatures now in low 60s

I had a better wind break, but Hurricane Beryl took part of it out.