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[Blue-Jay]

Hey Honycomb !

What happened to your Black Coco Beans? I read something this morning on here that your beans were beaten. Did you get a hail storm?

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hey Honeycomb !

Anyway whatever happened I would just let those beans grow. They might put our more shoots of leaves and bloom and still produce fairly nice pods. I had rabbitts nip off a bunch of my snap beans last year, and those plants put out more shoots and eventually took on the form of a full grown snap bean plant and bloomed and produced pods. Eventually you could never tell that something had happened to them. So as long as your plants still have their roots in the ground just let them be. Plants can do amazing things of recovery.

 

[the1honeycomb]

Bluejay thanks I was worried the hail storm had beaten them but I will stop being a worry wort and give them time!
We did have a hail storm, lots of stuff beaten down! all my flowers gone.

Thanks fro the encouragement!!row

 

[baymule]

It is heartbreaking when you see the plants you lovingly tended beaten down by a storm. Just like Marshall and Russ said, they will probably make a full recovery. Big hugs to you!

 

[the1honeycomb]

Thanks for the hugs Baymule!! hugs back! the plants seem to be perking up maybe they will show off for me!!

Thans Guys for your encouragement

 

[journey11]

My beans are up! All of them! We got 3 and a half inches of rain the other day and that sure moved things along.

That is a bummer about the hail, honeycomb. Maybe they will bounce back after a while?

 

[MontyJ]

Here are the Winterfare (background) and Tobacco Patch (foreground). They are moving right along.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Thought I'd take a couple of shots of the big bean garden now that all the plants are up. I think they have just about all emerged from the soil. although I planted about a week and half to two weeks later than usual the soil was very moist from all the rain we had this spring so the beans seed absorbed moisture from the soil quite well. Then the sun and warmth we got after I planted just made everything pop up quick. After I had visited the bean patch about a little over a week after I planted it. It was like opening a Christmas package. Beans growing all over the place. Planted 80 varieties of Bush beans and 36 varieties of Pole beans. Below is three photos I took this morning 6-17-13. Only one pole variety didn't come up. It was a white bean that my Doctors receptionist got in a catalog as an experimental bean. It didn't do well last summer in the drought. I collected a few seeds from it and planted them this year, but no dice. Marshall's Nova Star is growing here. I'll have to photo it when it gets a little bigger.

 

[baymule]

Monty and Bluejay, those are some good looking bean patches! I will have to take some pics to post.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Need some help. Ive lost two of the Jeminez bean plants. The stem just dries up right at the ground and pinches off. To me it looks like damping off, but it isnt that wet. The ground is moist under the surface but not right at the surface. When I dug up the part that was below the part that rotted off, it was hollow. Heres a photo as I found it.

Then a photo after I dug it up.

I havent mulched them yet so it was just bare dirt. I planted half first and when some of them came up, I planted the rest. The two that have died like this were in the second batch and had been up a week or less. I grew beans here last year and had no problems.

Im thinking it is some type of disease. Any thoughts or suggestions? Ive got another one coming through the surface. I dont want to lose it.