just had successful results with fern forest grown pinto beans in tamale pie last night...mmm!
Hey rbs!
Tamale pie, cool. Ya think pinto beans would grow in lower Puna at around 300 feet?
Tim
I think they'd do fine Tim, also hey, we just got in and got your message. Is it too late to call?
Did you just use dried pinto beans for seed? Were they bush or climbers?
a big bag of dried pintos, started getting moldy so i planted em...never got more than a foot high but i didn't pay attention to ideal planting conditions or season...just throw and go.
i left climbing apparatus, but they didn't use it.
Ah, bush beans then. I think most of the commercial beans are bush beans since they can be mechanically harvested easier.
I've had much better germination rates from beans bought for eating than from some beans bought as seed. I dunno if that is typical or not, but that's how it was when I replanted peas using whole dried peas bought for eating. The geese had eaten all the young pea seedlings in the garden which had sprouted from a packet of pea seeds. That had a germination rate of about fifty percent. I replanted using "for eating" peas and those had a germination rate of about 100%.
