Help, something is eating at the stems of my plant causing them to break and the top die off. Also on the ground there seems to be runner bean leaves. This has effected the dwaf bean and my climbing beans, fromt the 6 plants I potted out I now have one. What is attacking my beans and how can I prevent the damage too my remaining plants.
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It was slugs and snails who got half of mine, the other half though are doing quite nicely. Spent most nights picking the little blighters off the bag the beans are growing in and moving them over the fence into the yard behind us (not another garden I hasten to add!) The family think I'm crazy!sigpic
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Originally posted by NoviceVeg View Postsomething is eating at the stems of my plant
As they seem to feed from the top down, they don't come into contact with the pellets on the ground, so I pick them off by hand and crush themAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
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I grow runner beans in three distinct areas; my flower garden, my vegetable plot and my allotment.
All three areas have lots of snails and slugs and two very large pigeons. I know I get damage to crops from all three.
My veg plot and allotment are away from my dog so I use slug pellets. My garden isn't so I don't.
My runner beans only get eaten in the area without slug pellets.
This year 20 odd plants in the garden (ie every plant) were eaten while we were away on hols but 40 plants in two trays next to the area (my spares) were not eaten... until the following night!!! I can see slugs/snails gorging on those planted out and not needing to climb up to the trays of spares until the following night. Had it been the pigeons they would have found the trays easier to access first.
So, for me, the circumstantial evidence is clear, me lud, slugs or snails get my runner beans.
The pigeons get fruit and brassicas unless well netted but not the beans.
PS I've never known sparrows eat anything in my garden. Blackbirds take worms from around my beans and peas and regularly eat all the peas seeds but never bother the beans.The proof of the growing is in the eating.
Leave Rotten Fruit.
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium - potash.
Autant de têtes, autant d'avis!!!!!
Il n'est si méchant pot qui ne trouve son couvercle.
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Originally posted by NoviceVeg View Postsomething has cut through the stem about a foot too two feet from the ground. I was wandering if it could be sparrows?The proof of the growing is in the eating.
Leave Rotten Fruit.
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium - potash.
Autant de têtes, autant d'avis!!!!!
Il n'est si méchant pot qui ne trouve son couvercle.
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