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In 2023 I early started In Styrofoam cups about 8 varieties of pole limas. They did great. This year in general the best beans are the...

we're about to get some more rains here. i just planted Purple Dove beans in what i had ready of the garden i'm working on. hoped to...

I have the same thing happen in my bean plots. However not on a mass scale. It's usually one or two plants here and there. It's happened...

I've had 2 in a row of 6 bushes do this, rare ones. What you describe is exactly what happened, they were growing wonderfully, leaves...

my guess is vascular collapse from warm weather and the plant roots can't keep up with the demand. it is sudden. this year i'm getting...

I have a kind of sudden death issue. Sometimes one plant in a row which seemed to be doing fine, will look sick and all the growing...

I find it much more common to have a random bean plant fail to thrive than most other vegetables. It's like they have quite variable...

I had the most incredible success getting my 'Rebhuhnauge' plant out of it's pot today!!!!:celebrate At first I didn't think the...

Had a Wren's Egg plant struggling for the last week and it finally succumbed. Dug around to see if voles were an issue and nada...

cut around the bottom along with the slices down the sides. just leave the bottom as it is and dig it up in the fall to remove it...

@Blue-Jay could you see the names on the tags of all the network beans in the last post? I realized after that maybe they might be too...

Well, I do live in the world's largest integrated mining complex; nine operating mines, two mills, two smelters, a nickel refinery, and...

No, they've been there for a decade I think. But what got me thinking about the rain barrels was a few years ago I noticed by chance...

Growing up in East Tennessee we got our drinking water from a cistern that captured the run-off from our house. It was a tin roof, not...

All your photos look like normal healthy bean plants. Very nice !