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Offline Old Syko

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Black thumb
« on: June 05, 2013, 04:23:42 AM »
Is it possible to have a black thumb when dealing with some seeds and plants?  I can't seem to raise beans or corn.  Again this year I put out blue lake beans and a bunch of sweet corn and again hardly any of it came up.  Worked up the ground again and had the wife replant.  Within days everything she planted had come up.  I told her everything came up so well it almost looked like some of it came up twice.   :D   We did things exactly the same.  As a matter of fact, I did all the prep work, including laying off the furrows.  The only difference is which one of us touched the seed.  All seed went to the same depth when covering also.  I get fantastic results with taters, maters, and all other forms of vegetables other than corn and beans.   ::)   A friend of mine used to make good money on bar bets by rubbing ice cubes in his hand and putting them into a glass of water and they would sink to the bottom of the glass and stay there.  I've begun to wonder if I have some sort of affliction.  I'm seriously going to try wearing sterile gloves for planting my late corn because I just don't get it.   ???   I've done most of the gardening since I was a pup yet something has happened to cause this in just the last 3 years. 


BTW I'm not posting this to be funny.  It is the truth and I'm seriously fascinated with what is happening.
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Offline longwinters

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Re: Black thumb
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2013, 11:05:54 AM »
If your wife always replants after you try initially maybe its a matter of soil temperature?  I always replant my green beans twice and I think its a matter of soil temp, planting the 1st beans to early.


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Re: Black thumb
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2013, 02:17:35 PM »
Soil temperature might come into play if it wasn't for the fact that even my late corn fails and I don't even plant it til the last of June.  This is the third year of this silliness.  I've seen my wife break a limb off an apple tree and just stick it in the ground and we now eat apples from the tree it formed.  I've evidently lost my ability to even get something to start with good seed.  I don't have a problem with anything but corn and beans.  Yes it sounds stupid.  I've even wondered if the series of radiation treatments I endured a little while back could have done something.  No I don't glow in the dark or anything like that but I used to be able to grow anything.
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Re: Black thumb
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2013, 03:21:57 PM »
Looks like your wife needs to plant certain things and you take care of the others.  I don't know what would make that kind of difference.


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Re: Black thumb
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2013, 05:01:53 PM »
When I am planting, rooting or grafting my mantra is "most things want to live more than my bad karma can overcome". Not saying it works but I hope they get the idea that I am on their side.
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I farmed for over 20 years feeling that most everything that I planted was doomed before it came up. That is not any way to live. ear
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Re: Black thumb
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2013, 03:08:52 AM »
Ear, if you only knew.  You see, I'm a big believer in karma.  My wife has asked me what I've started doing that has things messed up.   :)   I have no clue.


20 years of farming with that attitude reminded me of the old joke about the farmer who won a lottery. When asked what he was going to do, his answer was "keep farming until it's all gone".


Going to put out more radishes and a couple more rows of carrots this morning.  I'll bet they'll all be up within a few days, but they ain't corn or beans.   :D :-\
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Re: Black thumb
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2013, 03:20:14 PM »
Try an experiment...have your wife plant half a row of something and you finish out the row, right behind her, out of the same bag of seed. 
 
My wife and her sister could sow Johnson grass seed and it wouldn't come up and we can't figure it out, either.  I and most folks on my side of the family have green thumbs.
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Re: Black thumb
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2013, 03:41:20 PM »
corn and green beans are 2 things that are really picky about how deep yu plant them and the soil consistency.its hard for them to poke there lil heads up if yur planting too deep or if your soil gits hard after a rain goin into a dry spell.ive seen both not have enuf power to come up after a hard packing rain in my soil.it just crusts over if not kept wet and hinders them.
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