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Cookseasonal wrote:
> On Jun 11, 12:34 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:


>> Two hours later, I do not lie, I looked again and see some
>> weird disturbance in the earth, all these mounds of soils.
>> Damn, did something dig up my beans??
>>
>> No. I moved a piece of dirt aside and there it was, a bean
>> plant! By the next morning they were an inch high. Freaky!!


> Yeah, it is fun watching them. If you plant the beans after soaking
> them for some 12 hours, they will pop out of the ground within a day,
> if the weather is warm and sunny.


Thanks! I don't know why I didn't think of that, I have soaked
other seeds. I just followed the directions on the packet.

> Do you have climbers? If not: Make
> sur eyou get plnety of air between the plants, otherwise a few warm
> moist days will make the stems start to rot.


Thanks for that tip. I planted them according to directions and
now I have to thin the plants. These are the bush type.

nancy