I planted three kinds of beans early last week. The weather had been quite warm, the soil was warm, and the beans were soaked overnight before planting.
A few days later a cold snap started. Temps down into the high 40s overnight, low 60s daytime. Today it's in the mid-50s and raining. I don't see any beans coming up yet, except maybe a couple of the limas. It's supposed to warm up again tomorrow but remain wet the rest of the week.
Am I worrying needlessly that the beans will rot?
Also, today I couldn't resist pulling a few of the carrots I planted last fall. (The patch has gotten too thick anyhow.) The tops of the carrots are around 2' tall and very green (the tallest one appeared to be getting ready to go to seed), but the carrots themselves are not very big, maybe 4-5" long, 1' diameter at the large end, and a very pale orange color. Since I've never been able to get carrots to grow in the past, I'm thrilled to have anything at all, but wondering if I did something wrong.... shouldn't these carrot be larger and more orange? They do taste very good.