What you see here is approximately what the roots of my green bean plants looked like when I pulled them up this morning: covered in tiny white nodules. What could they be? They look like tiny egg sacks. Or perhaps a terrible root disease. In fact, they are little bundles of nitrogen, created by certain […]
There’s a reason we call them “string” beans. They have strings! Some of them are really nasty strings, too, if you let the beans get too old before picking them. But I must have been out of town when they sent this memo. I had no idea that I needed to monitor my string beans […]
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It’s become an annual ritual, the raising of the trellises. I fashioned them out of 1 1/2-inch PVC plumbing pipe, two eight-foot lengths joined together with a “T” fitting to run the length of a garden bed. At each end are 90-degree elbows. The “T” and the elbows connect to three legs, each eight feet long. […]
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