Green beans, great vines, no blooms??

[RSKY]

In my little garden I planted Kentucky Wonder Poles Beans as I do every three years. We have great looking vines, but no blooms. Did not fertilize this year as the soil sample from last year was very good.

Any ideas.

RSKY

 

[Oaktree]

Maybe they're just late? This has been a weird year garden wise here, though mostly everything's been 2-3 weeks early.
No blossoms yet on my beans either, but I don't typically get them until mid-August.

 

[ponytug]

Sometimes, I have had the experience that f growing conditions are great, they can go wild at growing before blooming. I planted a broad bean variety once that went up a trellis and then up onto over about a third of the second story roof like some ivy on steroids. I thought that I had bought a defective batch of seed. Then one day, every leaf base (axil?) had a blossom, and the yield was incredible.

Hang in there.

All the best,

Peter

 

[RSKY]

Was gone for a week and a half and when we got back I picked about a gallon of beans. Plenty of blooms now but not many beans. Only saw three bumble bees going from bloom to bloom. Usually many more. One thing I did wrong was to put five rows of beans instead of four in this small space. Rows are too close together and it is hard to force my way between them. And when I do the leaves are rubbing my arms and neck and it ITCHES! I only grow the beans every three years and usually get enough off this small patch to can and last us until the next time rolls around. So I leave myself instructions. I misread the instructions on the row spacing and that was a big mistake.

My bush type beans at my daughter's place were much more productive BUT after one picking I've decided that a seventy year old is much better off with the pole type. All that bending and stooping and finally crawling between the rows hurts this out of shape body.

Anyway, good day.

RSKY

 

[ruffdog]

This year we had great spring growing weather being warm and wet. I had big bean plants and not many blooms. I was worried that the beans were going to do what my radishes and kohlrabi did (x2 tries) this year and just "bolted" (big growth with no edible part). The blooms did come later on the beans thankfully and kept coming so we had a good crop.

 

[Jstpssng]

My green peppers are doing rhe same as the bean plants above... nice green plants but no blossoms. Hopefully that will change. Meanwhile I'm getting more cucumbers than I've had in years. There is no such thing as too many cucumbers.

 

[wawajake]

Just started picking my bush beans this week, here in Canada.... Potatoes need a week or two to have plants die off, carrots soon to be picked ( 12 day drought now has half of my rain barrels empty, hope to get rain Thursday.) Might have to try pole beans next year to save my back !

 

[Oaktree]

My bush type beans at my daughter's place were much more productive BUT after one picking I've decided that a seventy year old is much better off with the pole type. All that bending and stooping and finally crawling between the rows hurts this out of shape body.

Yeah, I stopped doing bush beans for that same reason. Just started getting blossoms on my polebeans. Usually there's a lot more foliage than this year. We'll see how they do.
Lots of clover blossoms this year to keep the bumblebees busy.

Meanwhile I'm getting more cucumbers than I've had in years. There is no such thing as too many cucumbers.

Been getting a bumper crop of cukes myself. Last couple years were kind of pathetic. I generally grow the pickling cukes.

 

[Jstpssng]

. I generally grow the pickling cukes.

That's what I raise, also. I got a different kind this year though, along with what I usually grow. They taste like a long green cuke.

 

[RSKY]

Just started picking my bush beans this week, here in Canada.... Potatoes need a week or two to have plants die off, carrots soon to be picked ( 12 day drought now has half of my rain barrels empty, hope to get rain Thursday.) Might have to try pole beans next year to save my back !

This is the first year I've grown bush type and it will be the last. The headache of setting up the fence panels for the pole beans to climb is not as bad as the backache bending to pick the bush type.

I keep saying this is the last year for a garden BUT my mother had a large garden until she turned eighty. I believe that is one of the reasons she lived to be 97. I am seventy so maybe a small garden until I'm 80.

RSKY