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General Schvantzkoph wrote:

On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:43:22 -0500, Pat wrote:

I planted three kinds of beans early last week. The weather had been
quite warm, the soil was warm, and the beans were soaked overnight
before planting.

A few days later a cold snap started. Temps down into the high 40s
overnight, low 60s daytime. Today it's in the mid-50s and raining. I
don't see any beans coming up yet, except maybe a couple of the limas.
It's supposed to warm up again tomorrow but remain wet the rest of the
week.

Am I worrying needlessly that the beans will rot?

Also, today I couldn't resist pulling a few of the carrots I planted
last fall. (The patch has gotten too thick anyhow.) The tops of the
carrots are around 2' tall and very green (the tallest one appeared to
be getting ready to go to seed), but the carrots themselves are not very
big, maybe 4-5" long, 1' diameter at the large end, and a very pale
orange color. Since I've never been able to get carrots to grow in the
past, I'm thrilled to have anything at all, but wondering if I did
something wrong.... shouldn't these carrot be larger and more orange?
They do taste very good.

I'm in the same boat. I just planted my corn, peas and cucumbers. I
figure it will take a week for them to sprout and by then the weather
will have improved a bit. I've also planted backup plants in peat pots
which I'll use if I don't see anything growing from the ground by the
start of June.

I looked up beans and corn in the "Vegetable Gardener' Bible" by Edward
C. Smith.
http://www.amazon.com/Vegetable-Gard...Gardening/dp/1
580172121/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206815454&sr=1-1

Beans need 70-75°F to germinate and 60°F to grow. Corn needs 80°F to
germinate and 65 - 75°F to grow. If your gonna push 'em out in the cold,
you may want to help 'em by germinating them first.
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