Grow a bumper crop of Henderson butterbeans and help me figure out why Fordhook is a fail
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- Let's interact as I teach you how to grow, tend, harvest, and save seeds for Henderson Lima Beans and you help us with the Fordhook variety. Will you help me and this growing community of garden friends? Leave a comment and I will answer! And learn from you.
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I have never grown either variety of beans but I have had amazing all round success with banana peel and egg shell water liquid fertilizer. I make this constantly in old coffee jars by putting at least two banana skins and as many egg shells as will fit in the jar. Then I pour boiling water over the lot and let it stew in the sun for 3 weeks. At that point I tip the very smelly water into 3 litres of clean water and spray all over everything. I can hear the plants lapping it up as I do it. Within 2 days everything that hasn't flowered, starts flowering and they continue for a very long time. I do this regime, once a fortnight. Oh yes, do not clean the water empty jar out, simply add another peel and an egg sheel or two and top up with boiled water to stew again. Free and high in potassium and calcium.
I am going to try that! I have only heard of drying a huge amount of shells to get the desired effect, so this sounds more doable. Thanks for sharing.
my first time growing any beans ever-i planted 2 packs of fm fordhooks and 2 plants sprouted in june-frustrated i grabbed a bag of mixed beans the wife had on the counter and planted 10 of each of the different varieties on july 10 just willy nilly-now i have a giant forest of mixed beans with the pole beans and bush all mixed together-egad-what a mess-hope this brings a chuckle to you-p.s. i too only use ball or kerr products and grab a box or two everytime i go to town-take care
I`m trying Ground Cherry & Cape Gooseberry this year. They`re thriving here in Louisiana. Okra is always a success. I had to wait on old mustard plants from over a year ago to finish making seeds so I was late planting Purple Hull & Crowder Peas. My Red Rippers were a huge disappointment last year. Maybe it was the heat? They took forever to finally produce a terrible crop of very hard to shell pods...a tiny tiny worthless harvest. Only after the temperatures dropped below 100 about 5 months after planting did they finally make a few real pods. I let a wild bunny eat from them during the drought because everything was bleached dry. The bunny loves me now. I saved the good pods for seeds but didn`t make the mistake of planting them in my garden again.
Sounds like you have a blesse garden in spite of the heat!
I grew pole butterbeans one year down in Orland. They grew but got very few pods. That's when we lived in the swamp and we mulched. Then I realized that any time you mulch, the mulch robs your soil of nitrigen and so does watering when it gets really hot.
Anywhere I mulch I add extra nitrogen.
Now, I'm over on the Gulf side and instead of acidic I've got the opposite. Learning curves. I've also got clay.
Green beans don't like it here but Vigna beans love it. Any yard long, cow pea, adzuki goes crazy.
And my tall telephone peas loved my old garden. They hate it up here. I grew those puppies all through the summer heat and they kept pumping out peas. Up here, even with inoculent they just don't like it.
So, I'm having to relearn gardening.
@SandcastleDreams I agree about the mulch except that it's when you till it in at the raw state, the decomposition will rob the soil of nitrogen. If you lay it only on top, it doesn't affect the soil except to keep it from drying out so fast. My experience with leaf mulch on top is that beans and peas perk up almost overnight with it. I understand about learning curves. Soils can be so different. I hope you don't give up. Get to know your soil and you will be awarded.
My only thought is that the Fordhook require just-right temps to develop strong roots. Maybe you got lucky that particular year?Snip your saved seeds & place in water 6-8.hrs. Then start in a dixie cup to transplant. Baby them in the beginning & see what happens. Best Wishes.
Thank you! I think the weather had a lot to do with it. I plan on covering the latest ones with shade cloth. It doesn't hurt to try.
Last year I got no pole beans from 5 types but it was over 100 degrees for months. I cannot grow Armenian cucumbers either for some reason. I`ve planted them everywhere this year...trellis...no trellis. Since I started growing in fall 2022 the weather and armadillos have been a curse. Extreme cold, extreme heat, extreme floods, extreme drought/wind etc etc. This spring...no sun....no figs.
I'm sorry to hear about the challenges. I hope this year will be better. I have trouble with cukes and squash due to root-knot nematodes. I'm researching how to combat that.