Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Bean Update

It's been about a week and a half since I reported on the problem with damping off in the patch of Monachelle di Trevio beans in my garden. Well, I'm happy to say that the 6 survivors have stayed with us and are actually growing. I had sowed my remaining dozen seeds in paper pots at that time and got 100% germination, although there is one week seedling. Those babies went into the spots previously occupied by the first bunch of beans.


I had mixed up a sprayer full of Actinovate to treat a fungal problem elsewhere in the garden so the new bean seedlings got a squirt of that and I may cover my bases and give them a spray of 70% Neem as well.

I've got my fingers crossed that the next report about these beans is as positive as this one.

4 comments:

  1. Putting the second batch into the place where he first batch was might be a bit risky, so let's hope you get away with it! Hopefully your preventative spraying will do the trick.

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  2. Good luck with those beans. I had 10 that might live through my own disaster, but one died off today from something. I'm not sure what. It looks like damping off, but usually I get that at ground level. This time it was at the height of the cotyledon leaves.

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  3. There is something going on with beans this year - I'm also having issues and I think they may be slug related. I had spotty germination for 3 different types - all new seed & in two different beds. I'm pre-germinating some more seed now & crossing my fingers.

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  4. Everyone is crossing their fingers this year on beans, it seems. I have one patch that are all getting eaten ..

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