String Bean Fail

[Davis]

I put out a whole field of string beans and just went back to till through them. I just have two rows which came up. I was counting on bringing these to the farmer's market but I guess we will just be using them for our own canning. Any idea why 90% of the crop failed to germinate? It was fresh seed from Southern States.

[pinkie]

We had the same problem with our pole beans. They just didn't take and the ones that did didn't amount to anything. I love fresh green beans so it was a huge disappointment. It could have just been the seed, it more than likely is always the seed when a lot of it doesn't come up.