I haven't even planted mine yet! It's been very cold and dreary here with frost threats earlier in the week. Beans like warmer weather. I suspect it's the weather that did them in. It's definitely not too late to start them again. Beans also don't like to be transplanted. Try planting them directly.

I'm new at vegetable gardening, too, but can tell you that I have tomato plants growing right next to pole lima beans and haven't noticed any deleterious affect on the tomatoes at all. Everything I have is growing in large pots, and in several places the pole beans are even growing on the same frames as the tomatoes (they are all spreading more than I anticipated). I've got tomato bushes loaded with tomatoes, just starting to ripen, and the bean vines are also loaded with flowers and baby beans. Also, I've noticed very few bugs of any kind (except pollinators) on either the tomatoes or the beans. I did, however, also plant carrots in the same pots with the beans because I read that carrots would repel bean bugs. What's supposed to be the problem with having tomatoes and pole beans next to each other?

Anyone else have experience with these varieties? No, but I have experience with deer, I am about to give up on any beans or peas, they eat them all!

I know... I was worried because of the egg. I didn't know if the egg, even mixed in a spray, could develop dangerous bacteria after being left out for weeks in a spray bottle.