What did you plant as an experiment this year that you WON"T be planting again?

[rosemarythyme]

Wow, that’s crazy to get that out of so few plants! I still can’t believe how bad our beans went. We did plant one row of bush black eyed peas and got covered up in them! I’ve never heard of wax beans I’ll have to look those up, thanks for the tip!

The crazy thing is the wax beans I grow outperform the green beans by a lot, so even with 4 wax beans vs 6 green, I still ended up with at least 2x more wax beans. Next year going to cut back even further on wax bean plants as I simply can't keep up with them.

Wax beans basically look like yellow green beans, a little firmer with bigger seeds, but if you harvest them while still relatively small and tender they cook and taste similar to green beans.

Carrots! The carrots I planted here in northern MI look good until they come out of the ground...they came up small and somewhat bitter. Yucky!

What kind of carrots did you try? I usually have good luck with carrots but I've grown some varieties that came out so bad (woody, hard, not tasty) that I pulled all of the plants from the garden.

 

[camochick96]

The crazy thing is the wax beans I grow outperform the green beans by a lot, so even with 4 wax beans vs 6 green, I still ended up with at least 2x more wax beans. Next year going to cut back even further on wax bean plants as I simply can't keep up with them.

Wax beans basically look like yellow green beans, a little firmer with bigger seeds, but if you harvest them while still relatively small and tender they cook and taste similar to green beans.

That is crazy! Sounds like you have great luck with beans. Is your garden in the ground or a raised bed? Ours is just in the ground our soil is sandy loam. Plan on adding some cow manure over winter to help bring in more nutrients to the soil before we plant next spring.

 

[rosemarythyme]

That is crazy! Sounds like you have great luck with beans. Is your garden in the ground or a raised bed? Ours is just in the ground our soil is sandy loam. Plan on adding some cow manure over winter to help bring in more nutrients to the soil before we plant next spring.

Raised bed with some pretty expensive soil in it (which I'll need to re-augment for next year), plus I compost so some of that gets added in. My bean bushes never get terribly big, but just produce and produce. The wax bean variety I grow is Beurre de Rocquencourt and the green bean is either Calima I think (or Cantare).

 

[camochick96]

Raised bed with some pretty expensive soil in it (which I'll need to re-augment for next year), plus I compost so some of that gets added in. My bean bushes never get terribly big, but just produce and produce. The wax bean variety I grow is Beurre de Rocquencourt and the green bean is either Calima I think (or Cantare).

Thank you for the specifics on the varieties you grow. I’ve considered trying a raised bed because I hear they are easier to control as far as soil and waterings.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Thank you for the specifics on the varieties you grow. I’ve considered trying a raised bed because I hear they are easier to control as far as soil and waterings.

Yes, very much so - I don't think our default soil is too bad, but using a raised bed ensures good drainage plus helps keep out pests. Plus I don't have the greatest back so being able to stay mostly upright to weed, water, plant, harvest is a huge plus.

 

[tripletfeb]

North east Ohio here. I tried lettuce and spinach this year. Not a single one came up. So, I won't be doing either of those again. We did have a weird spring though. It snowed in May! My roma tomatoes are doing good, now if I could only find enough wide mouth lids to can them!

 

[kcan2]

Yes, very much so - I don't think our default soil is too bad, but using a raised bed ensures good drainage plus helps keep out pests. Plus I don't have the greatest back so being able to stay mostly upright to weed, water, plant, harvest is a huge plus.

Can raised beds help with controlling blight? Our zucchini and yellow squash plants caught blight both last year and this year, although this year it held off a bit longer. I'm unsure what kind of carrot variety I planted, just grabbed a pack at Lowe's. My garden is on the struggle bus!

 

[rosemarythyme]

Can raised beds help with controlling blight? Our zucchini and yellow squash plants caught blight both last year and this year, although this year it held off a bit longer. I'm unsure what kind of carrot variety I planted, just grabbed a pack at Lowe's. My garden is on the struggle bus!

I haven't had to deal with blight so might need to google for suggestions on how to deal with that. Raised beds can help with drainage and keeping plants off the ground for better air flow, if those are things that will help. Powdery mildew is my usual issue with squashes, but the plants are close to being pulled at that point anyhow so it's not been a huge problem.

 

[Compost King]

Make sure we know WHERE you are in case weather or other location conditions are a factor.
WHAT you won't be planting again.
And WHY.

Eggplant, takes up too much time and space for the amount of food it produces.
Thai Hot Peppers, The flavor behind the heat is bitter.

 

[Swiss]

NE OH - Tavera bush beans! Only one germinated to fruition - the rest rotted in the ground while two other kinds of beans sprouted within 3' of them in the same bed.

Then it finally fruited only for it to be the smallest and worst tasting of the 3 "green" beans I grew this year. The KY wonders and dragon langerie right next to it did great and tasted WAY better.

I will not plant Sure Crop green beans. They were not a sure crop.

I’m in North Texas. Everyone says bush green beans do great here. I had 2 45 foot rows of them and only got 3 green beans total! Not sure what went wrong plants flowered and everything and then they all died when they had tiny beans starting. I’d never waste my time with green beans here again!

My beans did terribly this year, too! My Cherokee Wax Beans barely produced, but I think they got shaded by everything around them... and my Kentucky Wonder Pole beans only produced a couple at a time. I love fresh beans, though. I might just need different varieties (and fresher seeds as these plants came from I-don't-know-how-many-years old seeds). My sister planted wax and green beans, and they got mixing bowls full harvests!

I now wonder if my soil quality has something to do with it..... my sister grew in raised beds with soil they bought, and they fertilized with bunny poop... maybe I'll ask for some bunny poop to mix into my soil when everything is done/before it gets too cold.