Elaine Parrish wrote:
>
> We grew a lot of limas. My grandfather planted them with the "sweet corn"
> and they grew around the stalks near the ground. Talk about your
> Succotash! I always loved (and still do) limas. But that crawling around
> on the ground under the corn to pick them gave me the creeps. It was
> always cool and shaded so the snakes loved it, as did other creeping,
> crawling things. booowaaah. Still makes me
> shiver to think of it.

An absolute lie... lima beans wouldn't grow well enough to produce in
the shade of corn.

Got any more bullshit stories?

Lima beans are not easy to grow even under the best of conditions,
which is why they typically cost more than other bean varieties. Lima
beans require an unusually long growing season, and need full sun, they
will not produce in shade. There are a number of lima bean cultivars,
any of which can and are refered to as butter beans (in the US south),
but they are all lima beans regardless, whether you wanna call em
"butter beans" or "hillybilly fart makers".

Merriam Webster

butter bean
noun
1 : LIMA BEAN: as a chiefly Southern & Midland : a large dried lima
bean
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http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/C716-w.htm

The only creepy crawly thing here is you, Elaine.

Sheldon