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Post by templeton on Feb 19, 2015 22:28:47 GMT -5
MD,
beans can be a bit tricky with weather. I get flushes of pod setting, which is weather dependant - too cold, not good for flowers, too hot, not good for pollen. This also a variety by variety thing.
I suggest getting a range of varieties, and trying short rows of each, with staggered planting dates - rule of thumb, sow new batch at first sign of flowers on first batch. A dozen seeds of each variety at a time should allow you to make a good call for next season.
Have a look at the grand variety available from inspiration seeds in Tassie - should suit your cooler conditions.
Tho it might be the salt as you suspect.
T
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Post by templeton on Feb 19, 2015 22:37:16 GMT -5
as for horse poo, i can attest to its ability to bring in all sorts of new weeds. This might be due to gut-passed seeds, but is also a function of paddock collection, where scrapping up just the poo and not the surrounding dirt and resident seeds is not practically possible. Stable straw also brings in lots of unknowns. Luckily my beds are small and intensive enough that I just pull em out easily early on. Garden beds. Have not yet been exiled to the stable  Can't help but have a silent chuckle about our attempts to eliminate unwanteds, versus blueadzuki's tireless search for exotics in bags of imported dried foodstuffs...  T |
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Post by steev on Feb 19, 2015 23:43:13 GMT -5
Ah, the unwanteds! I have as client a church; I'll not name the denomination, but they do good work, running a daily lunch kitchen for the homeless, indigent, and bewildered ( a lamentably growing clientele ).
They've had building-expansion plans for years, though not the resources, so their south side is pretty neglected; they tried to exclude people from camping/trashing that area by putting up fencing; it's gotten a bit jungly, so we're going to open it and do some clearance; I walked around with the clerk today and pointed out that much of the growth is cheeseweed, perfectly edible ( I've certainly eaten my share ); this was greeted with a dismissive snort. I am appalled by the degree of ignorance and waste that typifies my society. Right; let's all live on Big-Ag's prepackaged products, with no connection to the environment in which we wander; we might as well already be in space-colonies.
I kid you not; with a couple hens on tethers, I could live healthily in an urban environment, but for the lack of carbs/calories. Given the occasional dog, I might not be calorie-deficient; I suspect there're plenty calories in a cockapoo.
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Post by robertb on Mar 1, 2015 14:06:03 GMT -5
Why don't they turn it into a garden? I know the feeling about resources; we're only beginning to find the money to do much-needed work on my own church. Meanwhile, it's far better to do something positive with the space!
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Post by steev on Mar 1, 2015 22:39:41 GMT -5
Too shady, and the clientele would tend to trash it.
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