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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Next trip to the nursery, I'll ask about chinese pole beans.  thanks.  I have 
limited space though, so it is good they grow up.  I already have about 40 
tomatoe plamts , the peppers, bush beans, a big plot of seeds planted, still 
have greens and brocooli producing.

  I don't know if I should cut back the greens to the ground and plant 
something else right beside them, so the greens can back on their own next 
winter -- if I am still here??   I hate to cut them all back if they 
withstand the heat enough to produce again this spring ... I just don't know, 
and haven't decided the best use of that space................

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--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com> wrote:


> Bob, also consider Chinese Pole Beans,,,,   
>  
> From my Desert Gardening Book.... the love the heat, do
> well in AZ, and climb u pto 8' tall.
> No pests, no disease.  Can also be used as a screen to
> keep sun off of windows, or even use over trelises. 
> Prolific production.
>  
> SOOOOOOO, since I have a problem with the sun coming in my
> east windows in the summer.... a couple of weeks ago I built
> an angled trelise for Chinese beans to climb and provide
> shade over the windows....  Angled, at about 55 degrees so
> I can walk under and pick the pole beans.... which will need
> to be done daily from the way it sounds.  
>  
> Pole beans, space savers to boot.
>  
> I'm going to plant a bunch of sunflowers off the south
> side windows to have a pretty view, as well as lots of seeds
> for munching on later, and will have to consider growing
> more beans on the west side, although I do have some trees
> on the west side that help with the heat/sun.
>  
> L
>  
>  
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> in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it
> coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly
> obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
> Political language... is designed to make lies sound
> truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance
> of solidity to pure wind.” ~ George Orwell
> 
> --- On Sat, 2/21/09, bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] More spring palnting
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 12:15 PM
> 
> I just finished planting 3 sixpacks of bushbean plants that
> I bought at our best
> local Nursery, yesterday afternoon.  Also, planted sveral
> yellow, red, and green
> bell sweet peppers (4 " pots).  I have used up most of
> my garden spaces,
> already and haven't even got my box of seed from
> gurneys.  I intend to plant
> quite a few okra, and I will plant it all from seed.
> 
> To digress, though.  When I went to the nursery ,
> yersterday, things seemed
> strange, out and about.  The city and traffic was busy , as
> usal, but, thwe
> stores were "dead".
> 
> Now, maybe it is because I rarely go to shopping centers or
> department stores
> or really much of anykind of store other than
> hardware/outdoor or book stores;
> but;
> 
>  I had ordered a few really good 'internet only'
> tool deals from Sears
> and had to do a local merchandise pick-up.  The Sears is in
> a typical large-city
> shopping center with many other stores, big and moderate
> size.
> 
>   I walked all the way thru the Saers to the Merchandise
> pic-up and there was
> only 'one' other customer in the entire store.  The
> parking lot in front
> of the Sears was basically empty.  Most of the other stores
> in that shopping
> center looked the same  way.  Now, the Costco that anchored
> the3 end cotrner of
> the center looked busy as usal; but nothing else.
> 
> Maybe this is typical for a Friday afternoon ?  I don't
> know.  But, Sears
> would have been better off to Shut the doors, and most of
> the other stores
> looked the same.
> 
> I went from Sears to my nursery, a few city blocks away,
> and it was jammed
> packed.  Now, the vast majority of pweople were buying
> flowers and shrubs and
> other ornamentals, but more people than normal were hanging
> out in the vegetable
> section.  
> 
> One man's anecdotal Friday afternoon.  The city is
> busy, but retail looks
> very slow.
> 
> Anyway, this post might show up immediately or in three
> hours, but I'm
> finished planting for this am.............
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