On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:03:43 -0400, songbird
wrote:

Steve Peek wrote:

So why not the bugs? I found the first two Mexican bean beetles today. They
met with an untimely end or perhaps that was timely?

[you do know that mentioning the word "bean"
around here is dangerous right? ]

I'd be interested in hearing why.

I've got 60 feet of row in the garden (2 sides of a 30 foot trellis)
planted with beans this year. I expect to give away quite a lot from
it. When I got done stringing the sisal twine, I did some math, and
realized I'd strung a quarter mile of twine.

are these the same beetles that used to be
sold as mexican jumping beans to kids in the
back pages of comic books (along with sea
monkeys )?

Hmm. Magic crystals (salts), electric shocker (wind up thingy), x-ray
vision glasses (cardboard thingies with a wavy pattern printed on
'em). I wonder how many more dissappointments I could recall. Its
depressing to realize just how much all of those companies preyed on
the comic-book reading youth. Where was the consumer protection
agency? "Provide evidence that your 'Sea Monkeys' hold tridents and
build castles or cease adveritising them forthwith."

today and tomorrow, finally planting the north
bean patch, beautiful days to be out.

How many plants are in your 'patch' and how large is it (sq feet, or
for the benefit of the people reading this usenet group via that
infernal gardenbanter site, in sq metres)?

My beans, being pole varieties, are all planted along the north side
of my garden this year. Next year, I'll probably put them along the
west side (as part of rotation).

Rancho Gordo isn't too far from where I'm at, and the Seed Bank store
has started carrying some of their packaged beans (though I'm sure
they're intended more as a food product and not seed stock - I sure
don't need a POUND of seed beans of any one variety.