hill o’ beans

[mitchmaine]

question: every so often, the planter plugs up with a clod or something and twenty feet later pukes out a fist full of seed in one spot. after they germinate, those beans are twice as tall and twice as green as their neighbors that are evenly spaced and covered well. whats the deal??????????

[Matthew]

I don’t know if the seeds have a coating of some type on them. I know corn silage seed is coated with a pink coating I am not shure if there is a fertilizer in the coating I do know thair is something for pest control (crows) When I was a kid people would add a black dust to the hoppers on the planter that stuff was to keep the crows off the young corn.

[Joshua Kingsley]

What kind of beans?? Soy beans as we have found are a “love” plant. They like to be close and then they seem to thrive. We have had bean plants that are about 4 foot tall and had 37 pods and some plants were about 5 feet and had over 40 pods. our neighbors plant in rows 15 inches apart and we plant about 7 inches. The neighbors beans are rarely over knee high and have 10 or 15 pods per plant. These were the same variety in the same valley and only a few fields apart.

We were talking to an older gent and he says that they used to broadcast seed thier beans. his father got a drill and went to seeding with that and lost over half his yield. The next year they went back to broadcast seeding.

Joshua

[mitchmaine]

matt, we had crow tar for our cornseed. it was an oil. our beans are dry beans, yellow eye, not treated, straight out of the bin. wondering,joshua, if all beans might have a similar trait. fixing nitrogen, maybe? don’t know. but i thought of drilling them once and not having to cultivate. one swipe up the side of the field next year as an experiment, maybe. thanks for the replies, mitch

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