I am growing beans, among other things, in an outdoor community garden. I germinated them indoors and then transferred them outdoors. They may have suffered some root loss in the process. I checked up on them and their stems are browning (please see attached photo). Does anyone know what the problem is, and how it can be remedied? I am about to plug about 40 tomato plants and just as many peppers into the garden and want to avoid a total die-off of my crop.
Most likely related to transplanting and the change of environment. They probably didn't have enough time to develop any soil borne disease yet. As for the future, plant your beans directly in the ground, it will be much easier for you and for the plants. If you have some seeds left do it now. Your Tomatoes and Peppers – how do you harden them before planting in the garden?
I think it's a bit early for beans to be planted. I put one of my tomatoes in a protected spot out and it is not at all happy. Temps need to be consistently above 10 degrees at night before I leave those plants outside. I do put them in the sun on nice days. If you use some system to cover the plants at night and on any cool days, you could have success with those plants now.
I've planted beans and sweet corn from seeds, tomatoes and peppers from transplants , and melons from both seeds and transplants under plastic tunnel cloches; and they are all doing well in Burnaby, except for a bit of leaf scorching from last week's unusually high temperatures. The cloches have to be opened at both ends on sunny days, and I then close them for the night.
