Christina Websell wrote:
I don't know /what/ is going on. Even the plots full of 6' tall weeds
have
beans sticking out of the top of the weeds! But every single one of my
bean
plants has been munched to skeletal and dead. :'(
My only beans this year are the ones I put in hanging baskets, and of
course,
they don't get enough water to keep them happy.

I didn't know you could plant beans in hanging baskets. How does it work?

You can plant anything in hanging baskets, Tina. ;-)
Whether they /thrive/ there, or crash to the ground, is a different matter.

They're ... doing ok, considering, but I don't think they are getting anywhere
near as much rain as they want. It was just a wild act of desperation - I had
spare baskets (we hang chitting potatoes in them in the spare room) and spare
liners (bought 30+ of them for 10p each in January) and a bunch of plants, but
every time we planted on the allotment, they got munched. Seemed a good idea
at the time.

Haven't had any pickable yet, but there are a fair few baby ones which /may/
be big enough for the show on Saturday. I won't be entering the Biggest Bean
competition this year, I can say that right now.