There was a gardening thread up a while ago, and some of our members here have some very nice gardens. So, I thought perhaps this would be a good
place to get some answers to a tough question.
In my garden my pole bean plants are all between 1 and 1.5 feet tall, not even big enough to climb up the trellis yet, and they have started producing
flowers! One day one plant had one bean on it, I discovered to my surprise. Then a few days later flowers started blooming on all the bean plants.
These plants are way too small for producting beans. I don't know what to call this phenomenom... premature blooming? Can't find anything relevant
with Google. I have been picking off the flower buds as they occure because I want the plants to get full-sized before they start fruiting! I want
more than 3 beans per plant. At this rate my entire garden will produce enough beans for maybe one meal, which is ridicuous and a total waste of my
time and money.
To make matter worse my banana peppers are doing the same thing. They aren't even big enough to support the weight of a pepper. Also, my corn, which
is maybe 2 - 3 feet tall at max are now sending up sprouts . . . the ears of corn will be too heavy and the stalks will break.
What the hell is going on with my garden?
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Where are you geographically? What variety of corn did you plant? Here in New England I usually don't get the corn going until after Mothers-day.
This may help.
Plnting by the moon
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It sounds like a fertilizer problem, quite possibly over-fertilization. You can easily overuse certain chemicals with today's fertilizers and that
throws off the fruiting cycle.
Or it could simply be something with the weather where you are. Have you been having unusually cool or warm days/nights? I'm not talking about a few
degrees, would have to be maybe ten degrees or more off for a long stretch.
I'm really not sure other than those two possibilities. Maybe some more info (region, fertilizers used, soil type, etc.)?
TheRedneck
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I'm in north-central Florida, and the growing seaon starts in March right after the danger of freezing has past.
But, this year, it was unusually cold here. Shortly after I planted in either late March or early April we had a freeze warning which is about as
predictable as having snow in the Sahara. Definitely a surprise.
The soil in my back yard is very poor, so I bought topsoil and mixed the topsoil with peat moss, Black Kow manure compost, and organic fertilizer. I
didn't realize Black Kow is more than compost... in contains a big serving of chemical fertilizer. So I probably WAY overfertilized.
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