Beans, Beans they are good for your heart
Don't be afraid to tear something out that is not performing well and replant!
This week our bush green beans showed signs of RUST, a fungal disease, so the plants were torn out and all the beans on them were harvested. They were torn out BEFORE there was major damage to the second picking of beans. We ate them even with minor rust. I should have taken photos, but did not. Here is a link to BAD rust (ours were 5% of this damage): http://okeechobee.ifas.ufl.
The two bean beds have been turned under with rabbit manure and a time release 10-10-10 fertilizer then replanted with a Hybrid Gherkin Cucumber that professes to be resistant to both powdery and downy mildew (we shall see) and a succession crop of tomatoes.
Also removed and prepped in the same manner this week: pickling melon plot (was not growing well but harvested tons of red lettuce planted as a cover crop), Jamaican cucumber plot (it gave and gave and gave up), three everglades tomato plots that were planted in late summer that succumbed to root knot nematodes, and beet greens (beets were getting too big for beet greens, harvested, blanched and froze).
To be planted in their place (rotating crops): second succession of tomatoes, beet greens, cabbage, and broccoli. Most of your garden can produce until MAY so keep planting!
This week our bush green beans showed signs of RUST, a fungal disease, so the plants were torn out and all the beans on them were harvested. They were torn out BEFORE there was major damage to the second picking of beans. We ate them even with minor rust. I should have taken photos, but did not. Here is a link to BAD rust (ours were 5% of this damage): http://okeechobee.ifas.ufl.
The two bean beds have been turned under with rabbit manure and a time release 10-10-10 fertilizer then replanted with a Hybrid Gherkin Cucumber that professes to be resistant to both powdery and downy mildew (we shall see) and a succession crop of tomatoes.
Also removed and prepped in the same manner this week: pickling melon plot (was not growing well but harvested tons of red lettuce planted as a cover crop), Jamaican cucumber plot (it gave and gave and gave up), three everglades tomato plots that were planted in late summer that succumbed to root knot nematodes, and beet greens (beets were getting too big for beet greens, harvested, blanched and froze).
To be planted in their place (rotating crops): second succession of tomatoes, beet greens, cabbage, and broccoli. Most of your garden can produce until MAY so keep planting!
