Market Farming

["Catherine S" <farmerwantabe AT hotmail.com>]

Toni or others what type of varieties do you plant? I hadn't heard of the Appalachian or I haven't seen it around. I planted the Rattlesnake Heirloom last year and was very pleased with taste, longivity and usefullness and of course the market sales. Always looking for a new bean!

Catherine Simmons   Middle Tennessee

>From: tonitime AT juno.com >Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> >To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org >Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Christmas tree trunks make the BEST beanteepees! >Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:30:13 -0500 > >Good Passalong, Dorene Pasekoff! > In my 25 years of gardening in the city, i used to gather Xmas trees >at curbside each January and use them for my yard gardens.......and for >at the elementary school where i was the organic gardening teacher. Kids >loved that recycle. > Out here in the middle of nowhere now, the power company just sent a >crew around to cut trees away from the power lines thru the forest. Now >i have LOTS of conifer tree tops to play with..........and enough young >hickory and white pine to start a woodshed and maybe a henhouse next >year! As i now grow out around 15 varieties of Appalachian Heirloom Pole >Beanies each year, perhaps i will begine to use some of these trees again >- attached to a horizontal top.......these old beans really grow tall >and long. >Thanks for the memory, >Toni >upper Red River Gorge(ous), KY >_______________________________________________ >Market-farming mailing list >Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org >http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > >Get the list FAQ at: http://www.marketfarming.net/mflistfaq.htm