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

[heirloomgal]

Are you planning to grow all of those this year!? If so you must have a huge and amazing garden!!!

Yes, these are the plan, but I'm not 100% sure in the end I'll be able to fit in all those bush beans. I have a new garden this year to use, so I'll have to see what fits. It looks like more than it is really, as I don't grow a whole lot of any one kind of bean. For a pole variety I usually only plant 4 seeds, 8 at the maximum. Trust me, @Blue-Jay 's garden is waaay bigger than mine!

 

[heirloomgal]

I had a lightbulb moment yesterday out of the blue. It occurred to me that I have so many seeds left from last year's marigold that I am going to put in a plant between each pole of beans. After growing beans on the same ground for years I do think that pest pressures build up, and these particular marigolds ('Gem') are a wilder species and WAY more smelly. If there are any critters who MIGHT want to show up and bother my plants, these will be a great deterrent. And they'll look pretty too! I just need start the transplants in time, and a lot of them. A fellow who requested seeds of these marigolds from me last year told me in the fall that growing the marigolds in his potato rows was the first time he didn't have to deal with potato beetles. So, something to it.

 

[ducks4you]

I swear every marigold flower produces about 50 seeds. WAY more productive than a burdock! It only makes 7.