2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[flowerbug]

@Blue-Jay thanks, yes, that's a lot of work for hot days, glad you are taking care of yourself and not overdoing it.

gardens look great and seeing such wonderful garden soil always makes me envious, that you leave footprints when you walk on it even...

 

[Blue-Jay]

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. Only one of the beans does not a have a single speck of wind burn. That one is Red Valentine. It seems to be totally imune to wind burn. Just amazing to me.

Backyard photos

June 16th Red Valentine is in the center. There are six kinds of Beans
in this plot.


13 days later


Backyard flower bed. Tres Hatif de Massey in front. Apple Creek in
the middle and Bllue Jay way in the back.


Sounth Flowerbed June 16th. I'm growing Missouri Wonder, Delicous
Giant, Mr. Tung, Green Savage, San Fiarce which by the way was the
first pole bean to develop runners and climb. I didn't even have to
train it. It's like it had eyes and knew where the pole was. One more
bean called Fin de Vielleneuve which I think looks like it's turning out to
be a bush bean.


13 days later South Flowerbed. I grow the nicest bean seed in this
bed always.

 

[flowerbug]

re: wind burn, this is the first year i have seen this sort of damage. not enough to stop any plants from growing but i was wondering if it was too much well water or wood ashes. certainly the recent rains have vastly improved every garden.

 

[Blue-Jay]

re: wind burn, this is the first year i have seen this sort of damage. not enough to stop any plants from growing but i was wondering if it was too much well water or wood ashes. certainly the recent rains have vastly improved every garden.

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 today. This wind with high temperatures with added dryness I'm sure dries out part of some of the leaves. Actually kills the cells in the leaves. It has too for part of the leaf to turn brown like it does. I wonder if our climate is not only becoming warmer but also windier. Who knows maybe something like windscreens for gardens might become a new product.

 

[ducks4you]

The plots look so nice now with the weeding done. I decided not to put down the weed barrier fabric this year.

I have not ever used weed barrier. I'd like to know your line of reasoning TO use it and then to NOT use it.
You have me intrigued!

 

[Blue-Jay]

I have not ever used weed barrier. I'd like to know your line of reasoning TO use it and then to NOT use it.
You have me intrigued!

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 moisture without the weed fabric even though rain water is supposed to pass through. I also think weeds will be fairly easy to control this year with all the dryness. It would be different if we had normal spring rains that really load up the soil with lots of moisture. Then I could use weed barrier fabric to make my 5,000 square feet of gardening ground a bit less work by not have to do much weeding. Just a different plan for a different year.