Note to self: Know your plants.
In my impatience for a little greenery, I happily started several seeds indoors. This included scarlet runner beans for the little guy. The plan is to add them to a teepee structure we put up a few weeks ago.
Many of the seedlings are going crazy indoors, yet it’s not quite warm enough to plant outside. That includes the little guy’s runner bean.
For now they’re serving as a living screen at the window in front of his work table. He likes to touch the vines and tries to smell them, as he does with all plants. These eventually will be placed outside, where hopefully they’ll put on lovely red flowers. I read that these will also attract hummingbirds. Unexpected bonus!
One word of caution: when planting scarlet, be careful that a bean isn’t eaten. Apparently the dappled beans are toxic unless thoroughly cooked. According an article at “Were You Wondering,” it only takes five raw beans to be harmful.
April 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I think your son’s already getting full enjoyment out of living so close with those beans. If they are looking distressed come planting time, don’t worry too much: I have found that warm-weather-plant seeds planted outdoors after frost usually catch up to anything I started indoors.