package arrived 1st of June.
Due to limited space only 4 plants of each variety. But the species are quite different:
"Gadenstedter Omabohne" is growing fast and has 100% emergence. But also a variety with no emergence at all after 4 weeks. The other 4 varieties in between.
Will see how well resowing will work.
@echopapa @drupas hi! Mine arrived around the same time as yours, got 10 seeds each, so on the 4th June I sowed 3 each in one location, two each in the other and sowed another 3 each in modules (as backup).
Predictably the ones in modules did best. One variety didn't germinate at all, the others did well, but due to the crap weather (coldest June since 2015) are just sitting in the beds being nibbled at 😩
Anyway, most hanging in so far, here's hoping for some ☀️ and warmth 🤞 will post pics
@echopapa @drupas took this pic of one of the #pulsesincrease beds today. Had sown D (French variety 'Marche des trois chenes'), but all ten seeds rotted away. Replaced it with a second row of variety F (Canario from Mexico) from my backup modules, though I will have to exclude that row from the experiment. The others are hanging in, but they haven't grown much in the last week or two...
My #pulseincrease bed with currently 5 varieties (and some old Cavolo nero). Some bean plants are still in pods (resowing).
One variety with still no emergence :-(.
It's quite wet this year, so less watering necessary, but slugs everywhere.
The German 02676 (Gadenstedter Omabohne) and 00230 South American Tacoyunya grow fastest and had best emergence.
But no emergence at all with Austrian 00463.
In this bed climbing beans are always growing better than the bush beans, don't know why.
Gadenstedter Omabohne bean and 483 bean from Croatia are in a race. Both are now just under 1.90 metres tall
Still all emerged beans are ok. But Austrian 00463 is 100% fail.
Slug barrier works still fine.
Resowed beans now also planted. Will now fill the gaps in the bed with slug food :-)
drupas
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