Glenda,
Thanks. Enjoyed that. Going to try to make a trip back there this coming summer. I've already warned Carol I'm stopping to pester her on my way by. LOL. Sounds like a neat place. I find enough seeds in the catalogs and online that "I really need". LOL. I will promise myself before I go I won't buy anything. As if that will work. It is a good thing Dawn and I don't live closer to Baker Creek. We would both be building on rooms to store seeds in. Or selling on Ebay. LOL. Jay

Glenda, Thanks for posting the video. I enjoyed watching it. I found the text of the newspaper article and linked it below.

Jay, You know that you and I would stay in trouble constantly if we lived close to Baker Creek, so it's a good thing we don't.

Glenda, be careful about visiting Baker Creek. Carol became addicted to that place the moment she stepped foot on the property. Apparently a trip to Baker Creek is like a Lay's Potato Chip....you can't have just one.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Newspaper Article About Baker Creek

Yep, you got my number. I have been very busy this last couple of weeks so haven't had time to post much, but I did read a few posts. I had to laugh at the seed storage thread since I was thinking Dawn needed a trunk sized container for her seeds, and wondered how much coffee Jay had to drink to get enough plastic coffee cans for his. In my mind, I saw a horse trailer lined with stacks of red coffee cans and his hands shaking from all the caffeine. LOL

Glenda, be careful, be very careful going to Baker Creek. I think I bought 100 packages of seed on my two trips. The worse part is that I still could have bought more. On the first visit, I got a few things that I probably wouldn't have bought, but my DH was with me and I told him not to let me leave until I had looked at the beans. Well, he didn't remind me, he just walked over there and came back with a stack in his arms and said, "Don't bother, I got you one of everything over there." I have just about all I can stuff in a gallon bag and I think I had 23 kinds, last count. I usually only plant pole beans, but not this year. I think we are going to get a late start with planting, so I hope the season lasts a long time into the Fall.

Some of the postings on the Market thread seemed to lean in the direction of picking bush beans for about 3-4 weeks and then yanking them out, and start picking on the next batch. I have wondered if that is what you Oklahoma gardeners do also. I would be interested in hearing how all of you feel about that. I have lots of experience with pole beans, but not so much with bush beans. I think if I plan carefully, I could rotate through several kinds.

Darn it Glenda. I watched the video and was OK, then I had to read the article also. As I read, I noted the tomato info, I noted that I had Black Cherry, Brandywine, Mister Stripey and German Johnson, then they had to mention Siberian and how great it was for a fall planting. Well, I don't have that one........see what you did.

Jay, We will be happy to be the stopping off point for your trip. The spring festival is May 2nd and 3rd and that is my birthday weekend, so we have decided to go over for the 2 day affair. I don't know if you want to come that early in the summer, or if you are interested in 2 days of it, but I think it will be fun. Just let us know when you want to come, and just like Motel 6, "We'll leave the light on for ya".

Carol,

What is really sad is that all my seeds have filled that storage thing, and I need to buy a larger one this week. I don't even want to discuss how much space in the tornado shelter is curently occupied by seed potatoes. Let's just say that if we have a tornado before potato planting time, we're to have a hard time squeezing people into the tornado shelter.

I love the image of Jay's horse trailed crammed with coffee cans full of seeds!

Bush beans seem to be good for 3 or 4 pickings, although I don't actually log them and keep track. It is the hardest thing in the world for me to recognize when both the bush beans and the southern peas have produced about all they're going to produce and then to yank them out and replace them. I know it is necessary, and I know I'll get more beans overall if I remove 'old' plants when their productivity drops, but it is hard to do...I keep thinking I'll leave them "just one more week" to get a few more beans. This year I am going to try to do a better job of yanking them out and replacing them more quickly.

I always get a much larger harvest per square foot from pole beans, and this year I am going to grow plenty of both since the bush beans produce earlier.

I squeeze in extra plantings of bush beans by growing them as a 'border' along one edge of a bed of corn, okra, tomatoes, peppers, etc. The bush beans finish fairly early in comparison to the others, and then I yank them out and the other plants enlarge and fill their space.

Dawn

I buy most of my seed from Baker Creek. I always find myself adding seed that I have no idea what to do with or how to grow, but they all just look too amazing to pass up.

We're hoping to get up to the Spring Festival this year, but I'm a little afraid of what I'll bring home with me...

-Megan

Megan,

Whatever you bring home will be good though!

Dawn