Green beans anyone?

**Meadowlark** · #1 05-19-2012, 09:26 AM

Pictured is a 200 pound feed tub filled with this mornings' pickings of green beans...at least that many more on the vines.

If my chief canner doesn't return soon, don't know what I'm going to do with 'em....and the corn is just about ready also. Bumper crops this year of everything but potatoes so far.

**RAYSOR** · #2 05-19-2012, 11:36 AM

Wow!

**slip knot** · #3 05-19-2012, 11:50 AM

Oh my! I am only getting a few. Plants just don't look good this year either. Got a lot last year,mbut few this year.

**Danny O** · #4 05-19-2012, 04:40 PM

Very nice!

**w_r_ranch** · #5 05-19-2012, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Meadowlark

Pictured is a 200 pound feed tub filled with this mornings' pickings of green beans...at least that many more on the vines.

Dang, I WISHED I had that harvest here!!! I love fresh green beans, but this is definitely not my year. You did extremely well & I'm jealous as heck!!!

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Originally Posted by slip knot

Oh my! I am only getting a few. Plants just don't look good this year either. Got a lot last year, but few this year.

Same here. Some things are doing WAY fantastic & others are not (beans are one of them)... We are still trying to collect enough of a meal.

**Pet Spoon** · #6 05-19-2012, 04:55 PM

Lookin' good MDLK!

**Meadowlark** · #7 05-20-2012, 09:45 AM

Slip Knot and W_R_,

What do you guys think has made this a bad year for your beans?

It has been a strange year for me also in that my potatoes were a flop for the first time ever. Been growing them for 30 years and never seen this low production.

Trying to figure out what happened?

Also, my corn is now well over 6 ft high but looking like it is going to be very low on the production of ears. It's a strange gardening year for me. Very strange.

**w_r_ranch** · #8 05-20-2012, 04:16 PM

I'm at a lost to say it's any one thing (or two for that matter)...

Our tomatoes, eggplants, peppers (japs & greens) are doing extremely well, squash zucchini, yellow, white, butternut & spaghetti are all going nuts (I'm feeding the excess to the cattle AFTER supplying our friends)... The cantaloupe & watermelon are just kicking in after a very slow start. The fig trees are loaded, as well as the oranges & limes.

All our beans are a flop this year & you've already seen my post on the 'Onion Failure of 2012'. Blackberries are looking dismal, as are the pears & peaches... The fruit is getting set, just not in the 'normal' abundance or growth pattern. I do know it's not a pollination, a nutrient or a water challenge...

Life in agriculture is what it is... Which is why we have accumulated a small fortune in canning supplies & always try to have 'reserves'.

**Danny O** · #9 05-20-2012, 06:22 PM

This morning, we stopped to buy some onions from a local farmer in the Sandy Creek area of Lake Livingston. He said his Blue Lake green beans were blooming, but not producing. He planted them on the first of March. His potatoes were smaller this year. Selling onions and potatoes for $1 pound. Cucumbers and squash were excellent. Onions were nice, but below last year's average. Great stories too. Talked about his relatives owning the Cedar Creek area and riding on a wagon trail in the 40's. For those not familiar with the area, when Livingston was filled, Cedar Creek became a peninsula. It's a high-end neighborhood now.

**Meadowlark** · #10 05-21-2012, 01:56 PM

The chief canner showed up, thankfully, and turned that feed bucket into about 30 quarts of canned green beans....which will be mighty good next winter.