Your 2024 Garden

[Nomadicus]

Ma is dressed and ready and about to drag me out of the AC to plant the pole beans. Both Lima and snap. Just one row. About 90' of them. Kentucky Wonders, King of the Garden, one I can't remember that is new to me. It's a red bean of some kind and is more like a snap bean I think. I'll have to work on remembering what it is.

 

[Nomadicus]

Scarlet Emperor Runner Bean is one of the pole beans we planted today. Just a packet as a trial as this is a first time growing them and I really don't know what to expect. The seed varied from being shaped like a Kentucky Wonder to more like a Lima or Butter Bean. Most were like a big Fat Lima Bean. I hope that we like the taste of them when shelled at the green shell stage.

https://growhoss.com/products/scarlet-emperor-runner-beans?variant=47689283698998

 

[Sally PB]

Scarlet Emperor Runner Bean is one of the pole beans we planted today. Just a packet as a trial as this is a first time growing them and I really don't know what to expect. The seed varied from being shaped like a Kentucky Wonder to more like a Lima or Butter Bean. Most were like a big Fat Lima Bean. I hope that we like the taste of them when shelled at the green shell stage.

Let us know what you think.

 

[Sally PB]

I hope one of the buckets is right side up in the garden so I know how much rain we got last night.

With the fan on in the bedroom and the ac on in the living room, I barely heard the thunder.

 

[Loving my girls]

I have raised beds with a metal cage resting on it and chicken wire over the top. It also has a door with a secure catch on it.
I had a complete meltdown when I found my dog peeing on my last veg patch, my cat pooping in it and my hens scratch in it. All at the same time.
Then Hubby gained some brownie points.
As it’s not too big I have permanent asparagus, and this year tomatoes, cherry in all colours and pineapple tomatoes coz we love them. Also red and yellow onions, garlic and butternut squash and (for the first time in France) runner beans.
Outside the potager I have gooseberries and raspberries but the girls get these. I get the high level blackberries My peaches and nectarines have done nothing this year, a year of rest perhaps or maybe I pruned them too late.

 

[Nomadicus]

We are going out not to get all we can get done by 10am. That's when a mid day nap starts that coincides with the heat advisory we are under today until 7pm tonight. We will get some purple hull peas planted and I the seed are found the King of the Garden Lima beans. I looked where I just knew I had stored them last night and they were not to be found. If I can get them soon enough l may order another pound of seed today.

 

[tripletfeb]

I hope one of the buckets is right side up in the garden so I know how much rain we got last night.

With the fan on in the bedroom and the ac on in the living room, I barely heard the thunder.

We got huge storms last night. 3.5 inches of rain in about two hours. Everything is flooded, including a corner of my basement

 

[Nomadicus]

Just as soon as I ordered another pound of King of the Garden Lima beans I put my hand right on the first bag I ordered. If I can find help putting some T posts in I will plant them all.

 

[fuzzi]

So far the melons are untouched.

My bush beans are getting their second wind, I am impressed. But something is eating the leaves, and it doesn't appear to be insects:

Thoughts?

 

[NanaK]

So far the melons are untouched.

My bush beans are getting their second wind, I am impressed. But something is eating the leaves, and it doesn't appear to be insects:
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Thoughts?

This reminds me most of grasshopper damage. Not the tiny ones but the huge ones, maybe 3 inches long that are usually brown or green. I see them mostly in the early mornings about now into fall. They will fly off when disturbed.

Could possibly be leaf cutter bees or leaf cutter ants. The cut piece folded over really looks like the cutter bee damage.
The bees you may not see but the ants often form a trail when they are active, each ant carrying a tiny piece of leaf they use for building their house.

Does not look like rabbits to me. They only leave stems in my garden.

No caterpillars or frass?