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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Kingfisher on September 09, 2008, 19:08:24

Title: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: Kingfisher on September 09, 2008, 19:08:24
Hi can anyone tell me what this is and what I should do about it, or how to treat it, before I lose them all, many thanks Janet

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Title: Re: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on September 09, 2008, 20:00:57
it looks like rust to me. It's getting quite late in the season now, and there are lost of fungal and bacterial infections about - and the plants are just getting old. Nothing much you can do about it, just keep picking the beans (if there are any  :D)
Title: Re: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: Kingfisher on September 09, 2008, 20:22:05
Thank you RT I did not put them intill realy late, just thought I might be able to keep them going a bit longer.
Title: Re: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: kenkew on September 09, 2008, 20:34:19
Go high. Your problem starts low and progresses. Pick the ones above the problem. Take off infected leaves and pods below. You will get a crop.
Title: Re: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: Barnowl on September 10, 2008, 08:47:34
I agree. Don't think it's mosaic virus or anything sinister because mine go like that every year (in fact the earliest planted already have  :))
Title: Re: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: Bean_Queen on September 10, 2008, 09:05:47
Doesn't look serious.
Your Frenchies will be finishing soon anyway.

I succession-sowed mine this year, and while most are dried and stored already, I still have a lot to come, in case we get an Indian Summer.  Ha ha.
Title: Re: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: Kingfisher on September 10, 2008, 09:15:29
Many thanks from you all, my mind is at rest now, this is such a usefull site with the best and nicest people, you are all brill ,
Title: Re: Please help, what wrong with my French dwarf beans ?
Post by: cornykev on September 10, 2008, 16:46:48
As already said they are coming to the end of the season, so take off the bad leaves, mine are looking the same KF so no problem.      ;D ;D ;D