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Post by Mumsey on Jul 2, 2019 18:58:48 GMT -5
gardendmpls, That may be a good thing. Maybe you will miss the JB cycle!
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Post by gardendmpls on Jul 2, 2019 20:16:29 GMT -5
Never had a problem with beetles. Have a butterfly net to catch some when they buzz through. Chickens love them.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 3, 2019 3:11:43 GMT -5
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Post by datgirl on Jul 3, 2019 14:11:12 GMT -5
Just caught 3 JBs  , first ones Of the season. |
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 3, 2019 17:57:24 GMT -5
datgirl, I sprayed with neem on Monday. I've seen a few and managed to capture them in soapy water. I may have to visit the fabric store for netting.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 3, 2019 20:48:50 GMT -5
Picked a fourth (and probably last) picking of bush beans from the first of two beds. The bean beetles are back again (squished a lot of little orange egg clusters), with the second bed just now blooming. I'll get the first one pulled up and re-plant it for a third planting.
Great production so far.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 8, 2019 19:20:07 GMT -5
Pulled the spent bush bean bed number 1, after five full pickings. We've gotten spoiled on having freshies coming in regularly. Bed number 2 is lush and will be picking-ready in a few days. I'll re-plant number 1 as soon as possible.
Lots of bean beetle eggs on the pulled plants.
What do you folks use against them?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 8, 2019 20:07:21 GMT -5
I lost some more pole beans, and I am wondering if it wasn't the rabbits, but the wicked wind I had, which might have used the string of the trellis to just cut the stem - never had this happen with CRW, but I don't have enough of that. . Now, I'm going to try something else - some teepees, with some netting around them. This is getting as frustrating as when I was still trying to conquer SQB! Hopefully, I will conquer this!
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 9, 2019 4:06:38 GMT -5
Wheelgarden, I drown those JB in soapy water. Been using Neem but it doesn't seem to deter them much. I see our neighbor has put one of those JB traps in his back yard. Considering netting, but these are pole beans, 2 rows of them totaling about 25 ft. That's a lot of netting to deal with. I put milky spore down last summer, hopefully by next year it will be more effective. It can take a couple years.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 9, 2019 9:45:40 GMT -5
OK, I've had it with those JB. The junk store here in town has some fine netting, a lot of it for $3. Saw it yesterday. Hope it's still there... I'll use clothes pins to anchor it to pole bean fences and to reduce entry points. PIA, but I refuse to use the big guns. And they are after asparagus ferns, eggplant, etc. If I deny them the beans they will probably attack everything else!
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Post by binnylou on Jul 9, 2019 9:50:24 GMT -5
Mumsey, It amazes me that I don't have these JB. Maybe I'm not seeing them? I'm not complaining, though. You just keep them up there.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 9, 2019 18:44:36 GMT -5
Dad doesn’t have them out in the country either. They must be City guys. I never had them either when we lived in the country.
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Post by gardendmpls on Jul 10, 2019 6:17:37 GMT -5
I believe they spend their larval time among the roots of lawn grasses, which would appear to be more of a suburban ecosystem.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 10, 2019 8:21:06 GMT -5
The war is on. I'm aiming to win. There's another section like this, ran short of mesh, need 2 more yards. Darn.  |
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 10, 2019 15:54:44 GMT -5
Sure enough, the second bed of Blue Lake bush beans are behaving like half-runners, some 3-4' long. Need to extend the trellising upwards a bit. No worries, they're blooming and dripping with baby beanlets, and no sign of Mexican bean beetles yet.
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, first ones Of the season.
