Prevail Beans 10/25

[MaryL]

So excited to begin another bean garden. These beans are sweet and tender, and so cute!

[Shawn]

Following.. again. I have followed all prevail threads and am intrigued. Maybe I will plant some in the extra next month.

I will look for seeds tomorrow.

[MaryL]

I’ve got sees if you need

it is a fast fun project

[MaryL]

As you can see, I had no trouble with the first 3plants coming up, but I did with the other 4. I think my problem is that I don’t understand which direction to place the bean seeds to make the root go down and the stem come up.

So I germinated more seeds in a paper towel and waited to transplant until I could see the root well enough.  The new crop is coming along just fine

[Shawn]

Well at least you have beans on their way.

FOLLOWING

[MaryL]

More growth in just a few days!  I lost one but am not going to replant given there is already a disparity.

yikes , Mary..even the replants are tall now! This is going to be great!

[Shawn]

These are doing great

[MaryL]

Pretty soon I’ll have wee beans starting to form.  This was yesterday, day 23 for the original 3 plants.  I’ve had to raise the hood for those already.

very healthy looking plants, Mary! How are you going to trellis if they need it? Any thoughts?

[Shawn]

These are growing very nicely.  Another project on my To Grow One Day list.

[MaryL]

Nov 17, 2017 12:29:34 GMT -5 @cornne said:

very healthy looking plants, Mary! How are you going to trellis if they need it? Any thoughts?

I don’t remember from the last time that it needed trellising.  But, that may be because they got sick and I had to terminate them after the first bits of harvesting, so maybe they didn’t reach full height.  We’ll see!

I think I used hot pot chop sticks.

[mike]

I used chop sticks, too. It works pretty well. Don't use the shorter ones. I also bought some wooden dowels to try for next time. You can trim those to size.

[MaryL]

Nov 22, 2017 23:58:49 GMT -5 mike said:

I used chop sticks, too. It works pretty well. Don't use the shorter ones. I also bought some wooden dowels to try for next time. You can trim those to size.

Oh that’s right, I remember that now that you mention the dowels.  I went ahead and ordered the dowels and my garden died before I could use them. What did you use to cut them down to size? 

Here is the the size of the garden as of a few days ago (Monday?), I believe at day  27.  I raised the hood for the 2nd time. I have lots of buds but no babies yet.

 

[mike]

Wire Cutters

[MaryL]

I have babies now!

[MaryL]

I gave the plants a big trim of the biggest leaves.  The plants were getting so fat with leaves that they were pushing each other over, because I don’t have them staked for support.  Once they were trimmed, I turned them each to have them lean on each other and the post for support.



I have have lots of baby beans.  This is the most mature and is pretty much ready to snap off for a snack.