Like Noki said, I'd only worry about seeds rotting in soil that's too wet for too long, but beans and corn are on the larger side and wouldn't do that quickly. Though...even as I type that, I'm reminded of the cherry tomatoes that drop on the soil in the summer, somehow last all the way through fall, winter and spring and come up as volunteers the next year. So maybe rotting seeds are more a myth than a reality....

One of you cottagers posted a list of Michigan strange items a while back, so I'll try not to repeat that, but here are a few terms you might hear around here. The state is divided into two peninsulas, the upper one is the U.P. and the good folks who live there are yoopers. The peninsulas are connected by the Mackinac Bridge which crosses the Straits of Mackinac and has one end in MackinawCity. Nearby is MackinawIsland. All are pronounced the same way, courtesy of the French. People who live in the L.P. are called trolls, because, of course, they live below the bridge. The Mackinac Bridge is almost always called just the bridge. If we are going to the U.P. we say we are going up across. A U.P. city straddling the border to Canada is Sault Ste. Marie, pronounced Soo Saint Marie (French again). If we are heading that way, we say we are going to the Soo, and while we're there we may take a look at the locks. Tourists on Mackinaw Island (and now everywhere in the state) are called fudgies, due to the boxes of fudge many of them carry around after they have been enticed inside one of the many fudge shops by the irresistible aroma of boiling chocolate. Lots of Michiganders enjoy a meal of pasties (that's pass - tees), courtesy of the Cornish miners that came to live in the U.P. They are like a folded-over pie-crust with meat, potatoes, carrots, onions, and often rutabagas inside. (My mom always used to say rutabeggies.) They're very good, if a little on the dry side. A little gravy helps a lot. If you get too thirsty while eating one, you can always have a pop ( not a soda - you have to go to a soda fountain for those, which you can't hardly find anymore) Hope you learned something fun. ThinMan

My rattlesnakes, and all my beans, had been doing really well the last couple months. I think they still are but I don't know how much longer that will last. Unfortunately I'm still new to Florida(this will be my second summer) and pretty new to gardening. I'm sorry I can't offer a meaningful suggestion. This was taken March 29th, I was getting sick of green beans by this time. Beans seemed to be just about the only thing I could grow. :) (Click to view full-sized) RE: Green Beans for our hot weather... Posted by: gardengimp 9B Seminole Cnty FL (My Page) on Sat, Apr 21, 12 at 22:15 Try yardlong beans. If you pick them before they thicken you can snap and eat them like snap beans. Though they are in the cowpea family, so they are a great summer bean for here. ~dianne RE: Green Beans for our hot weather... Posted by: tomncath St.Pete-Z10A-Heat 10 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 22, 12 at 13:36 Here's the UF link, I liked it better when they had them broken down into Cool and Warm season crops but everything changes doesn't it :-( Look and the selections for "Peas, Southern" and the planting times for your Zone. I like green field peas and have some Zipper Cream I would love to start now but even though I'm in Pinellas I'm in a Zone 10 Southern microclimate being right off the water so it's too soon for me to plant now, I'll wait until at least August. Tom RE: Green Beans for our hot weather... Posted by: Indigosands none (My Page) on Sat, Aug 4, 12 at 20:57 Did you ever find a pole bean you liked? I gave up... I've tried a yellow wax runner, blue lake and kentucky wonder this year to no avail. I got some short 4" pods from the blue lake and a few random stunted pods from the wax and kentucky wonder curled in to a "C". I gave up and bought bush beans...and they flourished! Truth be told they cannot even come close to the pole beans for harvest I guess I just got lucky last year with the blue lake and a cooler than average late summer. I planted Dragon's tongue and Red swan bush beans from seed saver exchange and both are doing fantastic. RE: Green Beans for our hot weather... Posted by: carolb_w_fl 9/10 coastal (My Page) on Sun, Aug 5, 12 at 9:08 Rattlesnake is the only pole bean I grow - nothing else tastes better IMO. Results can vary due to soil/nutrition, I believe. I move the plantings around every year & some do better than others. Mine are finally over - harvested the last stragglers yesterday. FWIW, years ago, I grew a variety called Louisiana Purple Pod that did great, but it vanished from the seed catalogs & I haven't seen it since. RE: Green Beans for our hot weather... Posted by: tomncath St.Pete-Z10A-Heat 10 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 6, 12 at 19:41 FWIW, years ago, I grew a variety called Louisiana Purple Pod that did great, but it vanished from the seed catalogs & I haven't seen it since. I grew it last year, still available, and many other purples in a quest to see if any would surpass Purple Podded Pole but none did, for me PPP has been much more prolific and just as tasty...they grow so fast you have to be diligent about picking them early and every day :-) :-( Tom Post a Follow-Up Your Name: Your Email Address: Zone (optional): Subject of Posting: Message: Optional Link URL: Name of the Link: A copy of your follow-up will automatically be emailed to the original poster. Return to the Florida Gardening Forum

The yard-long beans are prolific in hot-humid weather, also the Florida speckled butter bean (a Lima bean) will also produce very well. Cow peas will also withstand our hot-humid weather in summer. The problem with most other bean varieties even though they will flower the high humidity during our summer rainy season causes the pollen to clump together and not pollinate the flowers. Lou