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Blue-Jay
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More troubling news on the Ice Cream Sandwich. Whatever else it is, it is NOT powdery mildew resistant. The top third of the plants (the part above the railing) is fine but the bottoms are beginning to get that yellowy leafless look a lot of my beans do around this time of year (it is hardly unusual for the plant at the end to be just a pod or two attached to a near to totally leafless stalk). At first I thought something had just been nibbling at the leaves on the wall but then I saw the drift of dead leaflets at the base.
Sometimes you can't have everything. Simcox has probably brought beans into the country that he had no idea how they would perform in every single climate, and delt the bean out to a number of people. Ice Cream Sandwich just might me one of those bean varieties sensitive to moister climates. The bean might do better in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona or California at a time of the year when there is not so much rain.