ChinaVoodoo
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Hey, thanks Bob. I'll add that string down the middle. It sounds like a good idea then to grow the beans separately in their own box. Cool.
The perfect food. Caribou potatoes...
I love to see people's vegetable gardens. Do keep posting their progress.I agree with Smokes once again. Potatoes are perfect.
We like spicy food. We do not like screaming hot stuff like Carolia Reeper peppers. Mild to medium heat is good. Eating hot coals is just plain stupid to me.
We like spicy food. We do not like screaming hot stuff like Carolia Reeper peppers. Mild to medium heat is good. Eating hot coals is just plain stupid to me.
Heh heh , I bought 50 lbs of cowpeas and soy beans to plant in my back land not to mention chickory and turnips, the deer still cleaned out out my purplehull peas and roma beans in my front garden. the deer are killing the deer fields also except the chicory and turnips. they are addicted to pea plants.The Mystery of the Pea Predator Solved
For over two months, I've been trying to get my sugar pod peas to grow. They keep getting mowed to stubs. Occasionally they would reach about 8" tall, then be mowed again the next morning. I've used slug bait, and sprayed with permethrin. The peas are surrounded by a cage made from sturdy box fence (to keep the deer out), and the bottom 15" of the fence is further blocked with bird netting (to keep the rabbits out). The pea predation continued.
My neighbor has a La Mancha goat. She has no horns, tiny ears, a long neck and long muzzle. The other day, I was watching as she got down on her front knees, stuck her head through the box fencing of her grassy pen, and grazed on taller grass (It wasn't greener!) that was nearly 18" beyond the fence.
That evening, as I sat on my porch, a deer appeared just beyond the trees at the property fence. She was apparently confident that I could not see her. There she stood, about 40 feet from the porch. I studied her long, slender neck, antler-free head, and impressively long muzzle.
My slow brain finally made the connection. My box fence cage around the peas doesn't quite reach the full circumference of the pea bed. So I had tied the top together, forming a slightly conical cage. Between the narrower top and the wider bottom of the cone, there is an open trapezoid. The bottom of the trapezoid is blocked by the bird netting. But between the netting and the top of the 4' cone, there was an opening.
Being ever safety conscious, I had bent the cut ends of fencing, so as not to accidentally snag my flesh. The result was an unintentional deer feeder. A deer could just stand facing the trapezoidal opening, and extend its slender head and neck through my convenient, trapezoidal opening to graze freely on the peas. But it could not leave any telltale deer prints in the soft dirt of the bed.
After slapping my head several times, I un-bent the cut ends of the horizontal wires.
We'll see what happens with the peas. It may be too late for peas, with the summer heat about to set in. I have had some success planting peas in mid May (rather than March), so maybe I'll get something for all the effort this year.
Bob
the only wild turkey I ever killed was tough as shoe leather.Can't forget the turkeys,
the farmer next 4000 acres over planted corn the other day and the turkeys were following him on the corn planter.
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange said:Genuine Cornfield Pole Snap Bean:
(Scotia, Striped Creaseback) 83 days. [Possibly of pre-Columbian origin, one of the oldest beans cultivated by the Iroquois who used it as a corn soup bean and bread bean. In the Cayuga Iroquois dialect its name means ‘wampum bean.’] Shade tolerant, an old favorite for growing with corn. Straight 5-7 in. pods, gray-brown seeds with brown mottles and stripes. Best harvested before seeds fill the pods. Use for snap or green shell. Produces very well during high heat.
http://www.southernexposure.com/genuine-cornfield-pole-snap-bean-28-g-p-261.html
If I can't shoot it out the window I ain't tracking itI chased him a half mile down a creek bed before I got a shot.