rrman61

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Can navy beans be grown in the Deep South?if so please elaborate.if I plant some I will use my long 445 to cultivate them so to keep this topic classic tractor related.Oh and the beans are for my own consumption
 
So machine cultivation of a crop of beans for your own use? If you're married, you have an understanding wife !!!
 
Most any bean is pretty tough. Bet you can go to your local market and buy a whole big bag of beans for not even two bucks. If you try this out do a germination test on them. They should sprout. Don't know if they run beans through a Gama ray machine. That would render then sterile.
 
In the south, yes. They probably are a bush type. I too believe the dried bagged beans in the grocery store will produce well.
 
Hey Pete ,do y'all have your garden planted yet? We have a few things in but not the whole thing. Still may frost tonight. Ugggg. Crazy Alabama weather!
 
Way beyond crazy weather in nw al also; right now, no garden except onions plants. They do like this weather.
 
Yep onions garlic and lettuce are doing good. Greenhouse is bursting at the seams , waiting on good weather!
 
A favorite locally is called the October Bean and sold dried at grocers as Cranberry beans. We buy our seed from the grocery. It is about half the cost as compared to a farm and garden store. They work just fine for us. I also have a Long 445.
 
In the 50s a neighbor planted a few rows of navy, pinto, and kidney. Combined them with his Massey. Just as good as CO beans. They were not GMO back then.
 
Much cheaper just to buy dried/cannot beans I know.have room in the garden and just want to do it myself
 
I would not expect navy beans to do well in the South because of the heat. We have raised hundred of acres of them years ago in Michigan. They need a well drained soil and the right amount of moisture, as they are very subject to too wet or too dry conditions. They will also "blast" real easy which means that a warm wind will blow the blossoms off the plant if you should get these conditions when they are blossoming. They are nothing like a soybean as far as being hardy.
 
Main crops around here are Wheat, Corn or Milo, some Cotton, some Soybeans with Sudan Sorghum and Bermuda grass for hay. Several BTOs in the haying business.

I know of one truck farm of about 50 acres that works cows, wood, and veggies. Seems to be doing ok.

Peas are planted for soil enrichment. I use Austrian Field peas and a neighbor, now deceased, used to plant Black Eyes.....one of his crops was planted and some of the peas picked by neighbors for their own consumption without one drop of rain on the crop....dirt was black clay and he had been planting and rolling peas back into the fields for years; not your average run of the mill soil to get that kind of performance.
 
Ha ..... no actually, I was referring to the fact that he'd have a LOT of beans which means a LOT of farting which means (hopefuilly) his wife is understanding !!!!
 
I live in central Virginia and have planted red beans for chili in the garden. They seem to do OK. I buy regular dry beans from the grocery store an plant them. Reasonable germination. Also tried black beans, never tried Navy beans though.
 

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