countrylane's Blog

Something keeps eating off the tops of my pole beans (they must taste good). I keep meaning to get me some hot sauce when I go grocery shopping each week, but I always forget (hard to keep my mind on what I am doing, with three boys to keep my eyes on). So I thought about stringing up some string across them or around them or something, but I couldn't find my jute string (I never seem to be able to find that stuff when I need it). So I had a handful of sticks destined for the burn pile when I had a brainstorm. I placed them on top of the beans, esp. the sticks with lots of little twigs sticking out of them. The other ones that were taller and hadn't been munched on yet, I put sticks up around them and wove littler sticks through the bigger ones. I think that the beans will be fine when they are bigger or maybe by then I will find the jute??? Hope this stops whatever critter is munching on them or at lest deters them.

Note: the Nicotania is not growing. I guess it doesn't do well here in Indiana. Crazy spring probably didn't help. Thought the pot I had them in with the old horse manure would encourage them to grow...:(