HELP- something is eating my bean leaves!

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JLEM Atascadero, CA Jun 12, 2010

This is my first time growing pole beans. It appears that something is eating the leaves, but I don't find any bugs when I look. Some of the leaves are almost completely eaten away. Suggestions?

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behillman Plantersville, TX(Zone 9a) Jun 13, 2010

My beans are doing the exact same thing, so I can't help you. This is my first year of gardening. My beans started out real nice, & now they have leaves that are biten off also. And I see no bugs. Could it be rabbits? or squirrels?

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locakelly Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9a) Jun 13, 2010

My guess? Birds! I never would have thought it but I've seen them with my own two eyes...

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stephanietx Fort Worth, TX(Zone 8a) Jun 13, 2010

Or could be slugs.

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merrymath Morrisville, PA(Zone 6b) Jun 14, 2010

Try sprinkling epson salt around plant .... slugs do not like it. Also oatmeal hurts slugs ... they eat it .... stomach swells they blow up and die ... then they are a feast for birds.


Dollar tree sells a quart size container of epson salt .... and yes it only cost a $1.

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catmad Pelzer, SC(Zone 7b) Jun 15, 2010

Be careful with epsom salts, they are used as a soil amendment, so you have to be careful that you aren't changing your soil to something the plants don't like. There are other methods to get rid of slugs, like a saucer of beer, or something like Escar-go.

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emorss Lenox, MA(Zone 6a) Jun 15, 2010

Last year, rabbits ate all my bean plants and pepper plants.

I did not want to put up a fence, and friends recommended Liquid Fence to me.

I was also told I should plant Marigolds around my plants because rabbits don't like the small of mMarigolds.

This year, after planting marigolds which grew large and after regularly spraying on lots of Liquid Fence, I have lost my entire celery crop, the bean crop (the stems and leaves) and the Marigolds!

I doubt the eaters were rabbits because the Marigolds were more than a foot high.

Help!

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behillman Plantersville, TX(Zone 9a) Jun 16, 2010

Sounds like deer, or gophers

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patterntracy Hyde Park, MA Jun 19, 2010

emorss--I have a friend in Newton Corner, who has watched a family of groundhogs decimate her garden for the past 3 years. That would be my guess. I've got a family of them here in Hyde Park as well, but luckily my veggies are much too far from their burrow to offer much enticement. Not when I've got all those flowers to munch on in between.......arrrggghhh! I've read that you can try keeping a radio going 24/7 to shoo them away, or put mothballs near their home, if you can figure out where that is, or what path their taking to your garden.
Good luck, let me know if anything works, because I wouldn't mind saving some of my flowers.

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