Has once again - overnight - ended up looking like this:
All but three have had their tops nipped off. "Depressing" is an understatement. I truly am cursed in the "beans" department.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Cursed by the Goddess of Beans
What started out last week as a very promising row of around two dozen bean seedlings pushing their way up out of the earth...
Has once again - overnight - ended up looking like this:
All but three have had their tops nipped off. "Depressing" is an understatement. I truly am cursed in the "beans" department.
Has once again - overnight - ended up looking like this:
All but three have had their tops nipped off. "Depressing" is an understatement. I truly am cursed in the "beans" department.
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7 comments:
Hi Crazy Mumma,
Sorry to hear about your bean demise.
Its so annoying when that happens... to have it happen multiple times over many seasons would get well past a joke.
Hope you found something to smile at today.
Kind Regards
Belinda
This year must be Bad Bean Year. I went to our local market this morning to purchase seedlings and was talking to the vendor about beans - I have tried twice to grow them this year, as has one of my friends - no luck. Well he told me HE was having problems. He has purchased over $1000 worth of seed and has not been able to raise one seedling. He has now bought seed from another supplier and said they were just peeping up last night so he has fingers crossed. Strange and mysterious I say..??? What type of ginger is edible ginger? I would love to grow some. Take care
Hi Belinda, thanks for the sympathy :-) It's quite exasperating, but what can you do? Next time I'll try covering the seedlings or something!
Hi Robbie, Wow that's really interesting to know! So it's not just me? Phew. The ginger is Zingiber officinale. I grew it the same as I did for the turmeric - I bought tubers from my local organic fruit and veg shop and planted them last spring. It's doing well but I gather that root yield is lower the further south you go so I don't anticipate getting as much as someone from QLD would? Will be interesting to see anyway.
Cheers, Julie
What a shame about the beans. My scarlet runners are doing OK but the rest died while we were away on hols (we had 3 x 40+ degree days and no rain in the one week we chose to be away).
I think we'll be subsisting on pumpkins this winter.
Kate
Oh that is so sad about the beans... can I ask (since I have no idea about these things), what happened to make them die? Is it a pest? Or is it soil??
Hi Kate,
What a bummer about your beans too :-( At least you've got some pumpkins, LOL, I couldn't even get any to come up in the compost this year!
Hi Eilleen, some sort of pest - bird or bug - is eating the tops off the beans and leaving the stalks! I don't know what it is as I am yet to see the culprit? Whatever it is seems to prefer beans to anything else, who knows why!
Cheers, Julie
I find that so disappointing when it happens to me - such highs and lows! Have you tried putting old milk cartons around them? I found that the critters that like to eat them didn't like the effort of going over the milk carton....My in-laws here had a lovely lot of beans but none of them set fruit....it's a bad year indeed! Good luck next batch!
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