Green Beans

Has anyone ever successfully transplanted green beans? I'm doing it today. Wish me luck.

behillman - I've transplanted peas successfully, so I imagine beans would be about the same.

First make the holes where you plan for the beans to go, adding fertilizer (if needed) and especially water to each hole.

Dig your trowel way down under each individual bean, and lift it with as much soil as possible, then gently place it into a hole.

I'm wishing you good luck ^_^

I start my pole beans inside every year and transplant them. Never had any problems.

I just transplanted Ky Wonder Pole beans a couple weeks ago, and they're doing fine.

I start them in 6 oz yogurt cups, and it's EZ to push the whole root ball up and out without it breaking apart. That seems to be the main consideration in transplanting plants that don't like root disturbance.

I sow a 24ft row of beans each year, I don't think I have enough indoor space to sow that amount of beans.

I'm skipping pole beans this year and sowing bush beans instead. I might need a new back by September! LOL

my Kentucky Wonders were successfully transplanted. now if the local birds would find others things to build thier nests that would be swell.

synsfun - I'm in a love/hate relationship with birds, too. But I enjoy watching them at the feeder, and it's especially nice to watch the Chickadees picking off aphids early in the morning.

And if birds and wasps didn't eat all the caterpillars, I don't think we'd have a garden left!

Thats a main issue I have right now. I have some Morning Glory seedlings that i think some lil green caterpillars are using as an all-you-can-eat buffet. I've managed to catch some of them, but some are still eluding me. sneaky lil devils!

One of our blueberry bushes has been completely stripped of leaves. I assume it was done by caterpillars. They are especially numerous this year - dropping down on us from the trees above.The roses are taking a beating, too.

A couple of years ago, the County sprayed Bt from the air to kill an invasion of tent caterpillars without regard to the fact that when you kill off pests, you lower the number of preditors because they starve. Now the ratio of preditor to pest is out of wack, and it will take time for the preditor numbers to climb enough to put things in balance once again.

I prefer to let Mother Nature do what she has been doing for millions of years. I've never used pesticides or fungicides on anything I'm going to eat, and this approach has served me well over the years.

if i see a pest, they go squish, but in my hands. ewwwww!

Yes, I've squished or stomped on a few myself. LOL

I need to make a contract with the local birds here, that would be nice.