Quote Originally Posted by Old Hippie View Post
That was a bust. Most of the rest of the beans are going gangbusters, but I suspect we don't get enough heat units up here to really wake up the tepary beans. We got them from a guy who's growing them in Saskatchewan, but anyway...

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Ya, I have a study somewhere in my bottomless botanical archive that shows teparies germinate faster in the heat. They're fairly slow growers; mine are creeping along this year. It's too tempting to over water them, though.

I have grown semi bush pintos, right out of the twenty pound grocery store bag, with very little irrigation as a crude experiment, and they can do quite well. I only grow the teparies because they are heirloom and ancient gene pools.

I'm gearing up to take on the casabas and other melons, as well as, the squashes over the next few years.