I am very happy for you Grits.
Hyacinth Bean
They look like they'd be happy anywhere as long as they were sharing it together .
Okay now back to the Wicked books Ms. Stewart has another one called Wicked Bugs Be afraid be very Afraid and I will attest it is not good bedtime reading some very strange bugs in it..
Hey! Remember those sticks I thought were dead??? Look how they turned out. Just starting to bloom. Lucky me. Jo
Hi , R R . You've got to get to Georgia again , with that sweet son of yours .We sure had a good time and I've gotten several girl friends that have made your soft necklaces . A big hit here . Digger (Sally)
I have just learned the Southwest will be flying into Atlanta starting Feb. 2012....now all I have to do is get a ride on over to Martinez!! I enjoyed my little RU very much...and would love to do it again. Jo
You have a place to lay your head with me or Eufaula . She says my bed is too hard but I'm going to put another mattress on both the twins . She says I need to open that room and let it air , so can do that . I live too close to a gravel road and try to keep the dust down . Anyway you're welcome to come .
I finally got some blooms.
The whole plant (3 really).
My bean is a foot tall and have one bean and one small cluster of blooms . Maybe I can get some seeds for next year .
Three of my eight plants have set beans...how long until they will dry for seeds??
My vines are loaded with blooms but so far no seeds ,just keep on holding my breath as I really want lots of seeds
awhile, they dry slo, the color will change and you'll notice it, until then the bean is still growing inside-plumping out- maybe another month at least, and grits? it may be Oct before your beans are ready to harvest...
Thanks! Now...out I go to water the little dears. Jo
One pod and one bean in it . Think I'll give it a name . Solo ?
Hey kitt today I noticed I have 6 of the smallest beans you could ever imagine so that is encourageing never worried about such things untill this year and now any thing we get is a bonus...
chuckl, my dad grew my beans in Escondido,Ca for me, the damsels love them, and he does too, but says he feels cheated, he wants the edible ones. The vines are gorgeous where he has them and they love the heat n humidity there- not like my dau's home when I arrived- in shock at how dry it is- and 109* for months she claims
I think y'all got yours early. Mine just started blooming last week. They're going full guns now, though.
The rain, they waited for the Indian Summer and rain, now they are catching up. Good!
Harvest time for the beans mine are just loaded but most are still immature but everytime one starts to shrivel I pick it ,Don't want any to open and fall out ,,will they do that ?? anyway have a big crop of them so will harvest as they become mature....
Me too!! Jo
leave em alone, wait for them, they are beans, picking extends bloom time if possible, they know what to do if they were uh, pollenized, yup, thats the word I want
I've never had them spill either . The pod just shrinks around them .
shrinks around them and the glorious purple color fades away, you pull them from their cling to the old vines, and peel them free when good n dry, when only vines remain and leaves have blown on the fall winds, chuckl, there you go
Kitt, are you in town?
sittin in Denver, have vaca time coming up with days off, will be home Nov 17 thru 27, screening tests, fun! not.
This should do it for this thread this year I ended up cutting the limbs off the dead crab apple in order to harvest the beans so I wound up with about a gallon of the pods and placed them on a drying rack wher they have now shrunk to about 1/2 of that and found that any that get dropped on wet ground wiil split ..the reason I was worried about that is my dogs will eat anything ..anyways I will have seeds for next year..
Me too...I have been pulling the dried pods off...but I think the vines have about had for this year...The Mexican Generals were terrible this year...and they ate lots of the leaves. Jo
Mexican Generals??????
I didn't know that Mexico was sending their generals up here to eat either!!!
They are the most gross, ugly, grasshoopers you ever want to see....they seem to invade us in more numbers every few years...this was their year!! The make a crunching noise when you step on them....LOL Jo
Edited to add photo link,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfivince/1478444345/
This message was edited Oct 28, 2011 9:19 PM
Thank you for the link and explanation, I had never heard of them, of course I know about grasshoppers, but those are the kind you want to keep away.
Josephine.
Chuckle, Santa Ana wasnt the first general to try to invade Texas...
I got pods at the last RU, and I want to go ahead and start them in pots. Do you plant the whole pod, or do you take the seeds out and soak and plant them?
Take the seeds out of the pods to plant.
If anybody has plenty of extras , I sure would like a few . I haven't been able to find any in the stores or anybody close that has plants .
Thanks, Newt. ;>)
I dried and save a bunch just have to find them ,meanwhile send me a mailing address..Glad someone ressurected this thread think I shall start some from seed pretty soon just to have as freebies for my gardening class But don't know if it is better to just wait and direct sow ..Seems like they are only going to bear when the days start to shorten ..What do Y'all think ??????
While I was picking the dried pods in the fall I made sure I stuck some in the ground...I want to see if they will come up this spring. Jo