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Post by hmoosek on Aug 17, 2022 20:13:47 GMT -6
I’m going to guess that the roots are getting hotter in the pot. I remember reading somewhere when I was learning about all this crazy gardening in the heat in Texas that when plant roots get too warm it can kind of inhibit the uptake of nutrients or something like that. I was looking at your other bean threads, too, and noticed that the potted beans seem to be having more trouble. I know the ground is harder to work, but any chance you could do some emergency transplanting? Yes, I could probably give it a try. They aren’t prospering in the pots, that’s for sure.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 18, 2022 13:33:02 GMT -6
I have a tough time growing anything but weeds in a pot. I've tried pots over and over through the years and always have bad luck with that. Part of the problem is that anything grown in a pot is eye level to a chicken or a goose. They love destroying just about anything they can find in one of my pots, so I have to move my pots to the garden or else elevate them. Elevating them seems to expose them to so much heat that I still end up losing them.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Aug 18, 2022 13:42:07 GMT -6
Weeds sure do love my pots, too. That wild petunia sprang up unwatered this summer. I was amazed. That, at least, is a weed that I don’t mind.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Aug 18, 2022 13:43:18 GMT -6
I’m going to guess that the roots are getting hotter in the pot. I remember reading somewhere when I was learning about all this crazy gardening in the heat in Texas that when plant roots get too warm it can kind of inhibit the uptake of nutrients or something like that. I was looking at your other bean threads, too, and noticed that the potted beans seem to be having more trouble. I know the ground is harder to work, but any chance you could do some emergency transplanting? Yes, I could probably give it a try. They aren’t prospering in the pots, that’s for sure. If you can, I’d love to see some of those struggling beans prosper, especially where they were your last seeds. I’ve been rooting for your plants.
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Post by hmoosek on Aug 28, 2022 18:05:13 GMT -6
Photo Update. August 28.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 28, 2022 19:49:31 GMT -6
Moose, that's awesome! All that dead grass in the background is a testament to your gardening skills; not the fact that the grass is dead, but the fact the beans are alive, despite the terrible growing conditions this season that prevented even weeds from prospering.
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Post by hmoosek on Aug 31, 2022 23:12:52 GMT -6
This bad boy is starting to take off in the last couple days. I noticed a runner starting to shoot up tonight. These are great looking, vigorous plants. The ones in the ground look so much better than the one I have in a container. I’m not saying these won’t grow well in a container, I’m just saying the ones in the ground are growing hands and fist over my container plant.
Also, I grew these to compare them to polecat. Polecat not vigorous like Calico, but again my Polecat peas are in a container. More grow outs will be needed to determine if it’s the same pea. I don’t “Think” it is, but I’ve been wrong a time or two.
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Post by hmoosek on Sept 2, 2022 15:17:19 GMT -6
Calico is blooming!
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Post by hmoosek on Sept 3, 2022 18:17:23 GMT -6
rdback I just came inside a bit ago. These guys are throwing runners left and right. I may have to put up some sort of support. They have taken off in the last couple days!
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 3, 2022 18:32:12 GMT -6
Beautiful!
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Post by hmoosek on Sept 13, 2022 21:59:48 GMT -6
These are loaded with peas, unfortunately they are covered with aphids. So far, none of my other peas have aphids. I take the water hose and spray them hard every evening. I’ve gotta mow too!
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Post by woodeye on Sept 14, 2022 4:34:35 GMT -6
Looking good hmoosek, despite the aphids. I'm having to do the same thing with my cucumbers, but it looks like you are winning your battle much better than I am on mine...
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Post by amyinowasso on Sept 14, 2022 9:39:24 GMT -6
Those pea shellers are neat! The year we had all the whippoorwills my grandsons came over and shelled them. You can entertain a 3 year old a LONG time shelling dried peas. There were a lot of peas on the floor... There's a tool I've looked for, one for shelling fresh...what I call shellies. Undried peas. Some tool that would cut the pod or poke it open to save my fingers. I swore I had seen one, but when I actually wanted one couldn't find it. Any suggestions? Some years back, on another forum, a man shared how he planted peas. He mowed the grass real short and scattered peas over it. I think he walked on them to get them in the dirt. (He is older and has mobility issues). He said the peas would shade the grass out. This seemed like the ideal solution, all that Bermuda covered in cowpeas! So I tried it with a 4x4 area of black eyed peas. I didn't want them for peas (I hate black eyed peas, any other cowpea is better) I wanted to try the little 4" long pods like green beans. Someone later told me black eyed peas had tougher pods than other cowpeas. My husband kept mowing the square smaller. He's kind of OCD about these things. He hated that there was SOME grass coming up in the bed. It was an interesting experiment, but my yard is not covered with cowpeas. My point is the peas will survive a little grass.
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Post by macmex on Sept 14, 2022 9:50:15 GMT -6
Amy, I have yet to try it but as I understand it, the sheller I posted above will shell them out green too.
Your husband would lose his mind around my gardens
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Post by amyinowasso on Sept 14, 2022 10:30:32 GMT -6
Amy, I have yet to try it but as I understand it, the sheller I posted above will shell them out green too.
Your husband would lose his mind around my gardens
Oh, he used to twitch, regularly, when I did things. He was very attracted to square foot gardening for its neatness. I like jungles. I cram everything in too close together, because I want to grow it ALL. Now that he's doing it all it's much neater, LOL.
The tool I thought I had seen was a hand tool meant for shelling peas and maybe even stringing beans. I guess I'll have to invent it. I already want to make a faucet adapter for people with arthritic hands. (This after I broke the faucet handle using a screw driver for leverage. )
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