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I planted two 6 ft long rows pole beans back in may. They have yet to flower and all they do is grow tons of leaves that end up dying off. About ready to yank them.
I grow in a raised bed that started off organic. Layers of yard compost/garden soil/rocks and sticks/and a top layer of a soft potting soil with 50/50 perlite
Everything started out fine until the soil diminished its nutrients. I top them off with a 10-10-10 fertilizer pellets and almost burnt up everything. (Back in June)
I hand dug out all the fertilizer and put them on a water only until I was just sure all the nutrients work on.
Being new to gardening I decided to go with what I'm very familiar with and thats synthetic nutrients.
My soil pH or somewhere around 7.8 to 8.0 (very high)
I was told in another forum not to mix water and pH to 6.5 as I was doing. I was told to use a garden hose.
I used my garden hose for almost a month. The pH of my tap water 7.7 knowing this was not correct as it would lock out any nutrient I'll take I listen to the so called pros and continued watering with the garden hose.
As my gut told me, this pretty much killed my entire garden blocking them out from all nutrients. (This was pretty much all of July)
Now that I figured out that these people were morons I've went back to my regular knowledge of growing.
I started ph'ing my tap water 6.5 when watering and hand watering everything in the garden. In the two weeks of August I managed to bring everything back to life. Everything's growing everything's flowering everything's producing fruit I'm a happy camper.
Except my pole beans. I have flushed the soil many times with 6.5 ph'd tap water.
The beans have showed vine and leaf growth get tons of Dead leaves and dried up lines.
Further researching pole beans I noticed they do not like nitrogen as they make their own so I sold out some phosphorus and potassium NPK fertilizers and found what I consider to be a good NPK for green beans 2-15-15
The actual fertilizer is Monty's premium root and Bloom 2-15-15 it's a food plant-based nutrient liquid and I feed them according to the directions on the bottle.
(It's actually been great for the entire garden and everything seems to like it)
Nevertheless, the pole beans continue to display Dead leaves.
I planted two 6 ft long rows pole beans back in may. They have yet to flower and all they do is grow tons of leaves that end up dying off. About ready to yank them.
I grow in a raised bed that started off organic. Layers of yard compost/garden soil/rocks and sticks/and a top layer of a soft potting soil with 50/50 perlite
Everything started out fine until the soil diminished its nutrients. I top them off with a 10-10-10 fertilizer pellets and almost burnt up everything. (Back in June)
I hand dug out all the fertilizer and put them on a water only until I was just sure all the nutrients work on.
Being new to gardening I decided to go with what I'm very familiar with and thats synthetic nutrients.
My soil pH or somewhere around 7.8 to 8.0 (very high)
I was told in another forum not to mix water and pH to 6.5 as I was doing. I was told to use a garden hose.
I used my garden hose for almost a month. The pH of my tap water 7.7 knowing this was not correct as it would lock out any nutrient I'll take I listen to the so called pros and continued watering with the garden hose.
As my gut told me, this pretty much killed my entire garden blocking them out from all nutrients. (This was pretty much all of July)
Now that I figured out that these people were morons I've went back to my regular knowledge of growing.
I started ph'ing my tap water 6.5 when watering and hand watering everything in the garden. In the two weeks of August I managed to bring everything back to life. Everything's growing everything's flowering everything's producing fruit I'm a happy camper.
Except my pole beans. I have flushed the soil many times with 6.5 ph'd tap water.
The beans have showed vine and leaf growth get tons of Dead leaves and dried up lines.
Further researching pole beans I noticed they do not like nitrogen as they make their own so I sold out some phosphorus and potassium NPK fertilizers and found what I consider to be a good NPK for green beans 2-15-15
The actual fertilizer is Monty's premium root and Bloom 2-15-15 it's a food plant-based nutrient liquid and I feed them according to the directions on the bottle.
(It's actually been great for the entire garden and everything seems to like it)
Nevertheless, the pole beans continue to display Dead leaves.
