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Post by chrysanthemum on Aug 29, 2022 19:07:33 GMT -6
Exciting and beautiful to boot. I love purple flowers on beans (and probably on just about anything else, too). It makes me more impatient for mine to start flowering, but I think they’re about ten days behind yours, so I’ll need to wait just a bit. How many did you plant?
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Post by hedgeapple on Aug 30, 2022 5:48:07 GMT -6
Exciting and beautiful to boot. I love purple flowers on beans (and probably on just about anything else, too). It makes me more impatient for mine to start flowering, but I think they’re about ten days behind yours, so I’ll need to wait just a bit. How many did you plant? Oh, I only have a dozen of them now. First time I have ever grown a bush bean at all, so I am watching closely. Seeing what they do.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Aug 30, 2022 20:42:49 GMT -6
This is my first year ever growing a bush bean, too. I planted some in spring in my neighbors’ garden for them. They mostly do plants that they buy, but they’re expanding what they grow with some encouragement and help from me. Sweet potatoes are their new favorite, and they managed a pumpkin this year and a good crop of basil from seed. The beans weren’t a real success, though, just because the heat came on too early. Woods Mountain Crazy Beans are growing well for me, but I admit that I find it a little stressful to have them kind of flopping about. It’s probably because I’m just so used to trellising everything in my small space. Overall, they look happy. I’m the one who just isn’t used to their habits.
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Post by woodeye on Aug 30, 2022 21:26:10 GMT -6
I'm just the opposite, chrysanthemum, I'm used to bush beans and will need to get used to pole beans growing differently. Your beans and watermelon vine look real good...
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Post by hedgeapple on Aug 31, 2022 15:14:40 GMT -6
My WMCBs are wreathed in tiny purple blossoms now and busy bees have been scrambling in there all day, so I am hopeful that I will have some beans soon.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Aug 31, 2022 18:29:55 GMT -6
Very exciting! I love seeing bees work flowers.
The other day when my youngest and I were in the garden, we were measuring him against the Red Noodle Beans to see if he was taller or they were. At that time just one or two were above him. Now about half of them have climbed well above my head. When we were talking about the plants, though, he asked me something that I didn’t quite understand at first, “Are these the wild and crazy ones?”
At first I thought he was talking about how they climb or something, but they’ve been pretty orderly, so I was trying to clarify what he meant. Then it hit me, “Woods Mountain CRAZY Beans!” I took him over to the bush beans and told him that they were the crazy ones. He’s learning the name.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 4, 2022 12:51:26 GMT -6
First (and only one) bloom on the Woods Mountain Crazy Beans this morning. There are more buds on the other plants, though, so it’s looking promising. I do have some yellow/brown leaves at the bottoms of the plants. Is that just normal for bush beans since they’re down on the soil?
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Post by macmex on Sept 5, 2022 6:49:46 GMT -6
I think so. The plants look good!
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Post by hmoosek on Sept 5, 2022 9:55:57 GMT -6
Yes chrysanthemum, I think so too. I have that on some of my beans.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 5, 2022 15:54:37 GMT -6
Overall, I’m very pleased with how they’re doing, but I admit that it was kind of worrying me to have them lying on the ground. This morning I asked my next door neighbor if I could borrow her unused small tomato cages, and I ended up putting them around the beans. I hope I didn’t do much root damage doing it when the plants were already growing, but I just felt better getting them up. It may be unnecessary trouble (it makes getting to the olla lids a bit more bother), but I like getting the plants off the soil, especially now that they’re beginning to bloom. All you bush bean growers can laugh at me, I don’t mind.
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Post by woodeye on Sept 5, 2022 19:37:07 GMT -6
Looks like a fine idea to me, just gotta do whatever it takes. As far as laughing, if you do get some laughs, you're doing better than I do with my jokes...
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Post by hedgeapple on Sept 6, 2022 6:50:49 GMT -6
Finally peered into my WMCBs this morning and there are little beans all over. 😊
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Post by hmoosek on Sept 6, 2022 7:34:59 GMT -6
Happy Happy Happy! You must be thrilled!
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Post by rdback on Sept 6, 2022 12:19:35 GMT -6
Overall, I’m very pleased with how they’re doing, but I admit that it was kind of worrying me to have them lying on the ground. This morning I asked my next door neighbor if I could borrow her unused small tomato cages, and I ended up putting them around the beans. I hope I didn’t do much root damage doing it when the plants were already growing, but I just felt better getting them up. It may be unnecessary trouble (it makes getting to the olla lids a bit more bother), but I like getting the plants off the soil, especially now that they’re beginning to bloom. All you bush bean growers can laugh at me, I don’t mind.
Now I don't grow bush beans anymore but I use to, as did all my ancestors as far back as I can recall. Now I must say, "I ain't never hurd 'a such thang", caging your bush beans lol. But if it makes YOU happy, that's one of the greatest pleasures in gardening. Frankly, I don't think the beans care all that much. *smile*
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Post by macmex on Sept 7, 2022 8:26:27 GMT -6
This bean almost always catches me off guard. I think they haven't got beans and then all the sudden... they're covered in them! You folks are checking so closely you won't be surprised.
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