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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] More spring palnting
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:50:21 -0500

. It actually is 'much' cheaper to buy thwem already processed from the grocery story, not just buying seed to plant.


Where do you get that idea? For the $1.95 you can buy a pack of 150 bush bean seeds. This will intensely plant a double 15' row, which, according to the Henry Fields site will produce 7 pounds per 15' row (14 pounds for a double row) over a 2-3 week period. In my climate, beans keep producing (lesser amounts) until frost, as long as I keep them picked, so I have beans from May through September, probably at least another 10-15 pounds per 15 foot row. Since beans are legumes, they require nothing more than compost, which I make for free. We get timely rain all summer, so I usually don't have to water them. That's potentially 44 pounds of beans for $1.95. Pole beans produce even more.

http://henryfields.com/product.asp?splid=SPLID02&pn=11575&bhcd2=1235316368

Lynn WIgglesworth
Tioga Co, PA




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