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Agreed, variety seems to play a central role. Probably some mysterious combination of variety and how it reacts with heat or lack...

That is very similar to the random plant sickness I’ve been experiencing. I’m thinking some varieties are particularly prone to it. I...

Some little bean updates and hodgepodge. I noticed today how peculiar the leaves of the bean variety 'Barba di Frate' are! In front...

I believe it's called the 'Variegated Cutworm', a more formidable opponent that the single other type I've encountered. There are still...

We've had a lot of cutworms this spring too. So frustrating. Now that I can recognize their pupas I can eliminate many of them at that...

I’m heartened to find I’m not alone in this phenomenon. It’s natural to either feel one has done something wrong - any manure in the...

That’s beyond awful @heirloomgal. My heartfelt sympathies. It makes the one or two giving up the ghost, which I was worrying about, seem...

@heirloomgal i would think that high up that it was groundhog damage because i rarely have any cutworms around here (just a few once in...

Thankfully the Wren's Egg plant has been the only casualty. I have three plants that have surpassed my height as of this morning -...

Well, the time has come to spill some beans so to speak, lol. I'm a believer in the adage 'where your attention goes, grows' so I...

Seems like many of us are having plentiful rain this year, that is a lot of water in 30 minutes. I haven't watered my main bean garden...

Went out to my Bean Acres offsite today behind the deer fence to see what 2.5 inches of rain in about 30 minutes did to my pole beans. I...

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...

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...

One of the symptoms I read of vascular collapse in beans is wilting, but in my case there was none of that. The plants were perfectly...