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Three years of drought how awful. I hope the one year old drought we are having here doesn't go that long. We are in moderate drought but with the heat that we have had this summer if I had not watered all my beans I'm sure would be dead by now. I haven't watered now for two weeks and tomorrows...

I picked a couple of Apple Creek pods yesterday and steam cooked them. They were stringless. They are not growing in a good spot this year. They are getting only the afternoon sun. The pods are not looking very uniform in shape. I will grow them again next year and give them a sunny spot. I...

I got a surprise in my bean garden today. A bean that I got this past winter from a grower in Nanoose Bay, BC. It must be a bush that I thought might be a pole bean. So I started it early along with the pole beans and it produced some pods and blossomed long before any of the pole beans started...

I think I'm having a rather odd bean year. Early part of the season was dry and I watered. We have gotten more rain lately and I have not watered in about two weeks. However I planted in my backyard 8 varieties of snap beans early in June. Usually those snap pods a pickable by the 7th or 8th of...

All beans have that inner white membrane inside the pods. I think that is to help the growing pod maintain moisture while the seeds are developing. When the pods become dry some varieties the white membrane breaks up easily and it flys all over during shelling. Some varieties the membrane stays...

What is the longest you can harvest the pods and still have them tender?

San Fiarce here was the first pole bean to climb in the plot where other pole beans are growing. The beans in this particular plot were all direct seeded. SF was also the first of these beans to bloom. I'm growing only one poles worth ( 4 plants). I'm going to try a few pods as a snap bean when...

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 looked at my Rain Gauge that I put there at the beginning of spring. Wow 3.3 inches of rain in about a 30 minutes. I probably won't have to water the rest of...

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 ones that have been direct seeded. South Flowerbed June 29th. South Flowerbed July 11. It's amazing the the beans can grow as fast as they do. I have never...

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 to both bush and pole beans. The plants seem just as normal as the rest of the variety and they just wilt, dry up and die. It's been very dry here. I water the...

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

These three photos look good. At this point it doesn't look like they have Mosaic at all. Hople it stays that way.

Yes this would be true you would destroy the plants just automatically without any further thinking. Most likely the virus is seed borne and you would destroy those too.

Here are two images of a bean leaves that don't have the normal valentine shape and is cupping downward from the Mosaic virus. The leaf is also displaying some blistering on the top surface.

Yes please. Take some photos. I would like to see what they look like. Sometimes it takes a bit of time for the virus to manifest itself. It is also my understanding that once the virus gets established in your soil. You can plant seed of beans that don't have Mosaic and they can pick up the...

Here is something I found about a week ago. Take a look at the leaves on the bean plant on the top photo. Click on the photos to get a better closer look at these plants. This is something to always to be on the look out for. The bean on top has Mosaic. It's a virus and you don't want it in your...

What if the wind in our climate gets bad enough that it starts harming growth, production and maturity times of your garden plants. Maybe wind barriers will someday be an important addition to gardens. Right now I would say no. Maybe plant breeders will even start breeding for wind burn...

This year the soil is so dry. We are in drought. The weed barrier fabric can get very hot. So hot I can't keep my hand on it during the daytime. I am afraid this year of transferring to much heat to the growing plants and also if we do get any rain I think the bare soil would uptake more...

No this wind burn doesn't stop plants from growing. Just makes them look not as nice. People were talking about this wind burn last year too. Gardeners in Iowa really had a lot of it. We had a number of days in the mid 90's here (35 C) and very winding nearly all week. It's pretty breezy here...

My Backyard bean Nursery. I have 8 varieties of snap beans growing. Blue Jay, Atwater, Alice Sunshine, Red Valentine, Seminole, Medal Refugee, Apple Creek and Tres Hatif de Massey. Most all the beans have a fair amount of wind burn on their leaves. We've had a lot of wind the last week or so...