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Comments (8)Sandy...Thanks for posting the picture!!! I had gone to our local Lowes & they were out of 5 gallon paint strainers & then I forgot about it!!! I will be making some & love the idea of the cheap pizza pans for a bottom! I look forward to raising a lot more BFs! I have only brought in BST cats & am leaving the PVSTs out but have moved several from my dwindling A.fimbriata plants to my 2 big A.tomentosas. So far...my milkweeds are thriving but no queen or monarch cats. OBTW...do queens get OE or only monarchs...do you know? Thanks again for the posting this...now I get it!!! LOL Take care, Lila...See MoreGreen Bean dilemma.....need advice
Comments (5)Lynn, I think it has been pretty trying all over. I don't know that I can remember another year with so many different weather-related issues. It is hard to advise someone on plants that you can't see. With the pole beans, if their new growth looks healthy and the disease is not progressing onto it, I'd let them stay and see if they produce. If the disease issues are continually spreading to new foliage, I'd take them out and replace them. Bush beans are a bit iffier. They tend to produce over a fairly concentrated time (3 to 6 weeks) so if they have issues, I'd replace them because they probably lack the vigor at this point to produce heavily. Now to answer your specific questions: * No, your bean season is not over. You still have time to plant pole beans through the end of this month, but I'd choose some with shorter DTMs. You can plant bush beans through about the second week in August, although the sooner the better in case Mother Nature throws an early first fall frost at us. * Yes, you can plant in the same place. If the choice is to replant in the same place or not replant at all, I'd replant in the same place but I'd be sure I removed all the old plant debris first, and then I'd mulch the new plants heavily with straw or hay to keep rain or irrigation water from splashing from the soil up onto them and possibly spreading disease that way. (That's assuming it ever rains again.) I plant pole beans in virtually the same place every year because that's where the 50'-long trellis is (and I am not going to move it every year), and I don't see a disease carryover issue. * Without knowing what diseases are affecting your beans, it is hard to know if the disease could be seedborne. The general rule is not to save seeds from diseased plants, but in the real world, people do it and sometimes they regret it and other times they have no problems. If you want to reuse the seed, you could dust the seeds with sulphur if you have the powder type of sulphur before you plant. I don't know that there's anything you're not considering. I'd say your bean problems are undoubtedly a result of the combination of heavy rainfall at some points in the growing season, accompanied by or followed by extraordinarily high humidity and heat indices. Luckily, summers this miserable are rare. Beans grow well in containers, but they require very close attention to watering in August and sometimes into September if rain is not falling. There are different challenges every year. You probably will have a great bean year next year, but something else will go haywire. It always does. Gardening is an inexact science and the weather throws all kinds of curve balls our way. That's how you learn and broaden your experience as a gardener, though, by facing each year's challenges and learning from them. You never stop learning. Dawn...See MoreUltomato Cages - Bush Goliath Hybrid Tomatoes in containers
Comments (6)The link below is to Amazon reader reviews of the Ultomato Cages. I saw another one constructed differently elsewhere, I think a stake with a spiral around it. For the most part, the Amazon reviews are pretty positive with several caveats that they should be taller for large tomato plants. You'd probably need to measure an assembled one to know if it would fit into the diameter of your container. Here is a link that might be useful: Ultomato Cages...See MoreBrown rot?
Comments (3)It isn't a disease but a physiological malady, Blossom End Rot or BER. It's related to some tomatoes being unable to process the calcium that's required for their growth. Look it up on the internet and here on Gardenweb. Usually it shows up early in the season but later tomatoes rarely have it. So just toss those and be patient -- soon you'll pick that gorgeous unflawed tomato!...See Moretheforgottenone1013 (SE MI zone 5b/6a)
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