An old gardening proverb tells us to plant beans when you can sit on the ground with your bare bum. The idea was that if the ground was too cold and damp to sit on comfortably, then it was still too cold and damp to plant beans. They’d rot.<\/p>\n
Is there some corollary for planting fall gardens in 100 degree weather? After all the Navajo and Hopi of the American southwest grew beans and corn in drier, hotter climes than Austin.<\/p>\n
Reading Dirt posted a great entry, Superfoods! Article 2: Beans<\/a> last week which reminded me that I had some cannellini beans left from a failed spring planting. AJM makes exquisite refried white beans<\/a> which we put in breakfast tacos. Every spring I’ve tried to grow cannellini beans I end up with less beans than I planted.<\/p>\n The instructions say, “For uniform, rapid emergence been seed should be planted in warm soils.” Unfortunately (now I read this) it continues “…above 95F germination is very poor.” Luckily, I still have seed left. If this batch fails, I’ll try again in another month. If we don’t have an early freeze, that might give me the 85 days I need for them to mature.<\/p>\n I guess I’ll reread Elizabeth Berry’s Great Bean Book<\/a> and dream of beans.<\/p>\n Technorati: bean<\/a> cannellini<\/a> gardening<\/a> 2006-08-27. The reworked bed is raised, about a spadeful deep, rich and crumbly.<\/p>\n 2006-08-28. Phasoleus vulgaris Cannelino.<\/i> 85 days. Many Italians believe Cannellini is the best dry bean on Earth, and it is widely available both dried and canned in Italian markets. Rich and meaty, these white kidney beans are the authentic bean for minestrone soup made famous in the Tuscany region of Italy. This 24-26 inch tall bush-type bears 6-7 inch pods and is one of the earlier maturing cannellini beans available. Seeds per ounce: 100. Territorial Seed Company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nZanthan Gardens History<\/h4>\n
\nPrepared a bed in the vegetable garden in a spot that has been fallow a year. Dug in four inches of sifted compost. Dug out the largest clay clods. Tree roots get into this section of the vegetable garden and despite years of organic amendments, the ground is mostly hard clay. Gave the bed a good soaking. Also watered in some Medina Soil Activator. If any soil need activating, this does. You know people cover the soil with plastic sheeting to bake out weeds and disease organisms? Well, the drought does the same thing–no plastic required. The ground is dead.<\/p>\n
\nPlanted Cannellini beans. Planted 60 presoaked (4 rows of 15) and 60 unsoaked (3 rows of 20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"