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My 2 cents would be to give the plants the kelp and fish emulsion, I give all my plants kelp, alfalfa and azomite once they've been in the ground a week or two. A thin dressing of manure sounds good too. I dressed all my bean beds this spring with my new soil, which was heavy with composted manure. I think adding those amendments would be a benefit to them. That said though, periods of cold weather affect a beans ability to uptake certain nutrients, and, they dislike wet feet in a huge way. Dry soil and warm sun is probably most likely to green the leaves up again more than anything.Given that I have only grown beans for a few years I am unsure of whether I should fertilize the seedlings. We are coming to the end of several weeks of cold wet weather, with about 9" of rain falling since mid-May and very little sunshine. The plants have been in a holding pattern, and at the moment all of the seedlings are lime green instead of dark green. Will they likely be okay if I do nothing? My instincts are telling me to give the pole beans a boost in the form of a shot of liquid fish and kelp, along with a thin top dressing of compost. We picked up a yard of composted manure as well, and a 1/2" of that could also help perk them up.
Wait, are we not supposed to plant all the network beans? Do you only plant 4 seeds usually due to lack of space? Or hold some back in case something takes out the first batch? I didn’t think of that possibility…
I always keep some back, just in case. I usually plant 1/2 of the bush bean seeds, and 1/3 of the pole beans and if things don't work out I can try again the following year. Every year there seems to be one bean in the bunch that doesn't succeed for me and because I keep some seed back I've always been able to return that one missing network bean in the following year's grow out.
