"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Matthew Reed" nospam at zootal dot com nospam wrote in message
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I planted a bunch of stuff over the last 4 weeks or so. I am wondering if
I planted beans too soon? I have squash, cukes, and tomatoes in the ground
doing well, but my beans either germinated poorly, or died after
germinating. I have them in seperate plots also, and all of them did
poorly. I'm in the mid Willamette Valley, Lebanon, Oregon. Is it too early
to plant beans?


Dig up some of the seeds and see if they rotted. They want the soil to be
quite warm when they're planted, or they can rot before they germinate.


Hm, I can't really tell. However, it's not been that warm. Mostly cloudy and
rainy. We had a dry spell where the soil *finally* dried to the point where
I could dig it, but it wasn't that warm. So I'm thinking I just planted too
early. Can I expect my corn to do the same? I risked a small plot of corn,
3 rows, 8 feet long, to see if it would grow.

I gather squash and tomatoes can tolerate cooler weather? My squash and
tomatoes are doing well (I thought I'd risk a half dozen squash and cukes to
see if I could get an early start with them). Well - actually, we had a late
surprise frost, before the squash/cukes/beans had germinated, and I lost 3
tomatoes. Everything else I have is cold weather stuff that is growing just
fine.