From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   T wrote:   
   > Hi Songbird,   
   >   
   > I got my green bean seeds in the mail few weeks ago.   
   > They sent millions of them.   
   >   
   > How do you plant your seeds?  How far apart?  Do you   
   > expect the prune them out?  Yada, Yada, Yada.   
      
     it depends upon what kind they are.   
      
     the soil needs to be warm enough, past all chances of   
   frost.   
      
     i'm going to assume you are talking about bush beans.   
      
     i plant them in rows with 8-12cm between them.  i don't   
   thin them out.  if they don't sprout or some get eaten by   
   rabbits or whatever the first week or two i'll replant and   
   hope those make it.   
      
     i just scrape a long straight shallow trench in the garden   
   and walk down the row and drop seeds at the spacing i want   
   and then go back with the hoe and bury them about 3cm deep   
   but perhaps deeper or more shallow based upon seed size and   
   my experience with those beans.  once i have them buried i   
   walk along and tamp the soil firm with the hoe and then   
   water them in and then i keep the soil damp enough that they   
   will sprout.  i spray the rows with the hose once or twice   
   a day to make sure they don't dry out.  once they are up and   
   growing i can back off watering gradually to encourage the   
   roots to go deeper.   
      
     for me we don't usually get the beans planted here until   
   around mid-to-late May and into early June.  i have a few   
   that i want to try planting earlier, but it is often hard for   
   me to get everything done on time.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
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