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

[ducks4you]

Runner beans are really running! I wonder where they'll go when they get to the top and it's only crossbars? Will they just fall on top? Weave through? I guess I'll find out! If they aren't happy with the trellis as is I might lay some wire mesh across the roof for next year. I hope this works though!! View attachment 76773View attachment 76774

'Elektra' bush beans!
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Old Joe Clark!
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I think BEB it'll make it!

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Wendy's Late Brother in Law's Bean

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it is a JOY to look at vegetables winding up a vertical instead of bindweed!!!

 

[heirloomgal]

Found some pods today!

The season is 30 days late this year, so I'm celebrating every win. Most beans are still flowering and have only itty bitty beans. I'm just so happy to find some beans!!

I am so thrilled with the pink of network bean 'Pink Tenders'!

'Black Snake'

'Ryder's Top O'the Pole'

'Kärntner Butter'

Network 'Barry Island' is just covered in pods like this. What an outstanding variety.

'Youdou #3'

Thought this was sorta neat

 

[Blue-Jay]

It is interesting to note that among all the pole beans that I have planted. I'm getting the best results from the direct seeded beans with the exception of once again the limas. The limas have really taken well to being prestarted in a container and then transplanted. Many of my Phasolus Vulgaris transplanted beans this year are stunted and don't look well at all. some of them have just simply died out.

 

[flowerbug]

Mom asked me if the bean plants can breath this hazy air. i guessed that it would be the lack of sunshine that will have more effect than the haze.

 

[heirloomgal]

It is interesting to note that among all the pole beans that I have planted. I'm getting the best results from the direct seeded beans with the exception of once again the limas. The limas have really taken well to being prestarted in a container and then transplanted. Many of my Phasolus Vulgaris transplanted beans this year are stunted and don't look well at all. some of them have just simply died out.

Sorry to hear that @Blue-Jay. I'm also experiencing some losses this year with beans suddenly dying on me. I don't know what it is, they usually start by the leaves yellowing then wilting and then simply drying up and dying. Sometimes they're wilting first with no immediate yellowing. The stems look dried up, and the lower part of the vines too. I've seen this occasionally, but this year I'm having a strangely high incidence of it. It's possible a vole is digging unusually deep and getting to them from the edge of the bed, but I doubt that because the plants getting hit seem random. I would see the plants getting killed in a row if it was that I believe. Maybe it's just a year that's hard for beans? All mine were transplants.

 

[heirloomgal]

Mom asked me if the bean plants can breath this hazy air. i guessed that it would be the lack of sunshine that will have more effect than the haze.

We've had a pretty hazy summer here too. Not every day, but quite frequently for days at a time. Wonder if this is a problem for some of them...

 

[Artorius]

Sorry to hear that @Blue-Jay. I'm also experiencing some losses this year with beans suddenly dying on me. I don't know what it is, they usually start by the leaves yellowing then wilting and then simply drying up and dying. Sometimes they're wilting first with no immediate yellowing. The stems look dried up, and the lower part of the vines too. I've seen this occasionally, but this year I'm having a strangely high incidence of it. It's possible a vole is digging unusually deep and getting to them from the edge of the bed, but I doubt that because the plants getting hit seem random. I would see the plants getting killed in a row if it was that I believe. Maybe it's just a year that's hard for beans? All mine were transplants.

@heirloomgal
Have you been pulling weeds around those dying beans?

 

[Decoy1]

Sorry to hear that @Blue-Jay. I'm also experiencing some losses this year with beans suddenly dying on me. I don't know what it is, they usually start by the leaves yellowing then wilting and then simply drying up and dying. Sometimes they're wilting first with no immediate yellowing. The stems look dried up, and the lower part of the vines too. I've seen this occasionally, but this year I'm having a strangely high incidence of it. It's possible a vole is digging unusually deep and getting to them from the edge of the bed, but I doubt that because the plants getting hit seem random. I would see the plants getting killed in a row if it was that I believe. Maybe it's just a year that's hard for beans? All mine were transplants.

Yes, I echo that and have had a similar experience. Perhaps not as many but certainly quite a few. I’m wondering about my planting mixture/mulches. Most of mine were transplants. I direct seeded only where I had a few losses due to a freak late frost.

 

[flowerbug]

usually i'm watering within a day of weeding around the beans and there aren't too many that are having issues. i've accidentally pulled just a few bean plants out because they were so tiny hiding in the weeds.

i lost a lot more bean plants from the critters and the crowding by the weeds. now that i have them weeded the larger plants are doing better and will reclaim the space.

there's little chance i'll have a bumper crop this season and i'm glad for what is coming along but i sure hope next year goes better! (the gardeners mantra ).

 

[ruralmamma]

Yes I would remove it so the running habit doesn't get into your other true bush beans. Personally I like to keep my true bush types just as they are. I don't grow bush types near anything that climbs. I think I found one runner bean among my Blue Jay this year and I removed it.

Avalon, which was labeled as a bush snap bean has towered and had to be redirected to keep from choking out the two tomatoes that share space with it. Runners are approximately 8' and it's every single plant. It's producing pods and is a good distance away from other beans. I have enough seed left to try again next year but what about this year's harvest? Do you want seed back with the notation that they're a climber?