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Post by Haz on May 22, 2016 9:10:12 GMT -7
In this part of Canada, you dare not plant anything outdoors before this holiday weekend for fear of frost. I start my vegetables indoors and transplant them into their outdoor beds this weekend. This year I think I started the beans too early. They are in the bay window at the front of the house and are climbing up the venetian blinds and twisting into the house plants. Errol is always full of nonsense and says I should leave them there so I won't have far to go to harvest the beans.
I am now going to untangle the bean vines and go to do some gardening.
Haz
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Post by Jane on May 22, 2016 10:39:30 GMT -7
It has been raining heavily here and the temperature up and down. Sunny and warm one day, cold and rainy the next. The heating came on this morning!
Jane
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Post by Adele on May 22, 2016 15:14:22 GMT -7
When I was in MN, I started all my plants in Feb and then did the late May transplant to outdoors. Half of my living room was converted to a growing room during those months, with growing lights hanging from the ceiling balanced precariously over strategically placed chairs.
Your beans sound like they're doing great! I haven't tried climbing/vine beans. Every year I do plant ones that make little bushes and the birds and I love them.
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Post by beakertrout on May 23, 2016 8:51:21 GMT -7
I just about went berserk when I looked out my patio door and there was a squirrel sitting in my strawberries chowing down.
Not as scary as when I walked out the door and met a coyote!
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Post by Haz on May 23, 2016 17:18:14 GMT -7
I used to plant bush beans. A few years ago, a neighbour gave me a bean pod of purple beans. They are purple on the vine and turn green when cooked. These days I only plant the purple ones as we find them nicer than the others.
The squirrels always eat my strawberries. I am lucky when I can get a few.
Fortunately, we don't have coyotes around here.
Haz
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Post by Adele on May 24, 2016 9:06:30 GMT -7
I'll have to look those ones up. I've never heard of purple ones.
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