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Post by tom 🕊 on Jul 10, 2019 16:30:07 GMT -5
the second bed of Blue Lake bush beans are behaving like half-runners, Is this the plants response to a late planting? |
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 10, 2019 16:36:50 GMT -5
tom 🕊 , I don't know what brings it on. It happens at various times with different plantings. I suspect it's maybe just random genetic variation.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Jul 10, 2019 17:56:33 GMT -5
I suspect it's maybe just random genetic variation. It happened to me five years ago. A half runner emerged in Kentucky Wonder bush beans. I saved seed, and the half runner breeds true. I was taken with the novelty and continue to grow it. I had never seen a half runner before and did not know what it needed. I could be wasting my time because there may already be better half runners that what I have. It can be used as a cut green bean but needs to be picked while the pods are flat and then strung. |
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Beans 2019
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jul 10, 2019 20:29:04 GMT -5
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 11, 2019 5:11:32 GMT -5
pepperhead212, I don't see a pic other than mine with cover on beans. It's fine netting, sewn to fit. The ends are sewn shut, held to the ground with bricks on one side and clothespins on the fence on the other side.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 12, 2019 14:30:24 GMT -5
I need to pick beans, but it's wet outside now and looks to be for the next few days, and I've always heard that you shouldn't pick or cultivate beans while they're wet.
Is it true? |
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Post by gardendmpls on Jul 12, 2019 14:43:25 GMT -5
I've heard that it prevents the spread of fungal diseases, but I've done it with no ill effects on the beans.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Jul 12, 2019 15:55:09 GMT -5
I need to pick beans, but it's wet outside now and looks to be for the next few days, and I've always heard that you shouldn't pick or cultivate beans while they're wet.
Is it true? Thoreau on wet bean plants: I wouldn't want to lose beans because of old farmer wisdom. |
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 12, 2019 18:04:58 GMT -5
My chief worry about it, in addition to admonitions against it from family elders and friends, is the fact that I push the wheelchair along with me hands, and they're always dirty/muddy from the wheels, gloved or not. Don't know if it matters, but I'll sure pick wet if need be. I will NOT lose my beans! Plus, I've got two more bean beds to plant soon. This'll be an experiment.
tom 🕊 , love the Thoreau quote! |
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 13, 2019 5:03:06 GMT -5
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Post by binnylou on Jul 14, 2019 21:56:45 GMT -5
I planted Fortex pole beans today. They are in one of the shadier hugelkulture raised beds that we installed last year. I'm hoping the roots of the bean plants find their way around the logs, because the beds are less than full of soil. If it doesn't work, I'll know better next time. And this fall, the beds should get topped and made full.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 16, 2019 16:52:51 GMT -5
I'm seeing lots of little beans, by Thursday I might be able to pick some. Now another neighbor has gotten a JB trap, hung it in a tree. Now I have them on both sides. Pros and cons of those things. Some reviews say they attract more and more beetles, but if they go to the trap, isn't that a good thing? I'm on the fence about it. But the JB have decided to start sampling the basil since I denied them the beans. I've seen a few on the eggplant too. But overall it looks like the numbers are decreased.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 19, 2019 16:18:54 GMT -5
Pole beans are so slow! Picked a few, not enough for a meal even. And I have a 22 ft row of them!
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Post by mcool61 on Jul 19, 2019 18:30:44 GMT -5
My green beans got eaten by deer. I planted several rows thinking we could share but they are selfish pigs.
I was having trouble with Japanese beetles &: the grubs so I got milky spore & spread it in the garden. It seems to be helping.
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Post by datgirl on Jul 20, 2019 7:49:13 GMT -5
Mumsey ,My pole beans are slow too.
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