Fall beans

[Zeedman]

Originally Posted by stonysoilseeds

this was the first year i had whitefly problems in my garden in the north...they were prevalent on my eggplamts

Same here. I've had a few in prior years, on okra, and on a flowering mallow that I grow to attract pollinators... but this was the first year they were on eggplant. None on my beans yet, though.

Some years back, I was told that I was too far North for whiteflies. Guess nobody told them that. We've had a couple of really warm winters recently, that probably allowed them to move further North.

[b54red]

I had to hit my beans with Permethrin or lose them so I did. The whiteflies were just sucking the life out of them. We are now having very dry weather and the combination was just putting too much stress on the plants. A few days after spraying I was able to pick a few beans but the plants are smaller than I was hoping for by now. It is supposed to cool off a bit next week and I hope they will perk up now that there are fewer whiteflies on them.

[bobberman]

My beans had flowers on but the frost got them when I was away for the weekend fishing trip in Akron Ohio!

[riceke]

Well I got lucky. With the exceptions of a few leaf rollers my Italian Pole beans have put out a huge crop of beans. Never thought they would make it but they did. Day temps mid 70's and nite temps mid 50's must be condusive at least to keep the bugs and disease at bay.

[b54red]

My plants are producing and I'm getting some beans now. The plants are not nearly as large as in the spring nor are the beans. The plants tend to be spindlier than in the spring and fall over worse. Taste is just as good if not better.

[greentiger87]

Hyacinth beans are producing more than I can eat. So pretty!

[bobberman]

I have climbing beans growing now in my greenhouse and they are 5 feet high but n flowers yet!

[Redbaron]

I have a row of baby bush limas that seem to be miraculously setting a third crop. Good thing too because the first two were complete failures. Less than a dozen limas total in two crops due to heat, drought and insects (grasshopper plague). But somehow they popped right back and look better than they ever did. Just will be a race to see what comes first...killing frost or third and only really productive crop.