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Too cold for beans? and a carrot question...
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. |
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Too cold for beans? and a carrot question...
"Pat" wrote | the carrots themselves are not very big, maybe 4-5" | long, 1' diameter at the large end I meant to write 1" diameter... sorry |
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Too cold for beans? and a carrot question...
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. |
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Too cold for beans? and a carrot question...
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 week is not much time, I would give them another two weeks before worrying. There isn't much you can do about it aside from sow again later when the weather is warmer. 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? David |
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Too cold for beans? and a carrot question...
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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. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html |
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Too cold for beans? and a carrot question...
In article
, Billy wrote: 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. 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. I don't know where the "Â" came from or what they mean. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html |
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