Beans are impossible to grow here in SC when Mexican bean beetles devour everything when you aren't looking.
It is what they do. They are really good at it.
Rats.
(I mean, "ratas".)
So, I resolved to never grow any.
Amen to that.
Until, I came across a tip on Pinterest. (It had nothing to do with better-than-sex chocolate cake, twenty-nine cheese and macaroni casserole or photobombed wedding poses .)
Hooray!!!
Whole wheat saved the day!!
(...and Kosher, too!)
The Mexican bean beetles hate it! The tip was actually how it works well for hornworms on tomatoes...so I thought, why not give it a go for beans? I dust the plants after I water and it puts a lovely sticky thin film that dries a bit crusty on the leaves and is hard to wash off. I use it on eggplants, too. I believe it might just be a modern day miracle to outsmart pesty pests. I'm trying it on squash plants. (If it works for squash bugs, I am going to deliver a national statement to the President and be in the running for the Noble Peace Prize.)
(Yesterday, someone actually "informed" me that Sevin dust is edible and perfectly natural...and they were SERIOUS.) Go read the Sevin SL label and you'll never touch the stuff again. Hopefully.
http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/cwlb/labels/SevinSL.pdf
So, thanks to Pinterest, I will be picking tender yellow wax beans and taking them to market this week.
Olé!
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