.my tomato plants have browning on their leaves..
..my beans did not grow one inch it seems.
..my supposed red holly hock is tall and beautiful but not red at all...its white..
same with my bee balm....more of a pink mauve than truly red...
squash look good....potted potatoes look healthy....beets might be ready...peppers so so....
in regards to my beans, even though I thought they were heirloom, maybe they were not...maybe seeds just don't last for more than one season...
This fall I’m growing some seeds from 2012. None of the zipper peas started. The CA black eye peas from the old packet are doing about as well as the new seeds I needed to buy this year. The best of the CA BEP, by far, are the ones I saved from plants that I grew from seeds from that old packet back in 2013. I’ve also grown Kentucky Wonder pole beans from several year old seeds. I haven’t had much luck with saving yard long bean seeds for more than a year.
One of the tomato (again from 2012) varieties (Calabash) didn’t start at all. One (mislabelled) doesn’t look that great. The rest, including the Mr Stripey from saved seeds a couple years ago, all look healthy.
I’m still growing all of my okra from a single pod saved in 2010.
Properly stored beans should last from 1 - 4 years in storage.
However, bean seed germination is soil temperature and moisture sensitive,
and thrives on heat and even soil moisture.