Oops the Second: Poor Green Beans
My green bean plants, the ones that were doing so well in the nursery tray, are pretty much dead.
If I’d read the package, I would’ve seen the notation that they need to be planted two inches deep. That’s pretty much the bottom of the container… so I just planted it in the middle and hoped. It turns out that this, along with an ill-advised decision to leave them outside overnight, resulted in their untimely passing.
Dead Green Bean. Poor guys.
Without being rooted deeply enough, the plants didn’t have any defense when the wind picked up last night. This broke the main stem of two plants and stripped all the growth completely off of a third. The two stems that broke at the very top, where they were just starting to split and grow new leaves, I brought back inside in the hopes that they’ll be able to recover like my VF100’s did last year after twice being mauled.
Luckily, these plants are 55 day plants. I started another pair today in deeper containers, and they should be able to go in the ground in a month and will hopefully be producing by May. I might lose out on the early season, but I should still get some good fruit.
Next time, Karl, RTFL — Read The Freaking Label.
Ah!, the age of problem of Spring. I too, have lost numerous promising plants to Spring winds and fluctuating temperatures. I went to a farm at a nearby town to buy peaches late last Summer. While chitchatting with the farmer about my disastrous 2008 growing season, she told me that she had planted 1000 tomato plants, 800 of which promptly succumbed to the killer Spring hails that killed all my early plants. Then, after the deluvial rains came the usual Summer heat and well, after our talk, I did not feel so bad.
I wish you many a delicious bean!