About This Episode
Advice for an attack on half runner green beans.
Plus, Grumpy shares his most shocking plant of the week.
This year there is a pest that rolls up the ends of the leaves.
When we look closely, we see a worm inside.
What will get rid of it without hurting the beans?"
They will climb a support.
The leaf rollers are the larvae of skipper butterflies.
They eat it right down to the ground, you know?
It’s anything that I plant."
It’s like these are the only people that comment.
“Everybody else is happy, but the deer ate mine.”
So then, what do I do?
As a responsible journalist, I go and I investigate thoroughly.
I search all the journals.
I search all the cooperative extension places, all the university websites for plants that aretermed deer resistant.
And so those are the ones that I mention.
So I’m done with it.
I am done with this subject.
You don’t have to water it.
You don’t have to spray it.
You don’t have to fertilize it.
It’s cold hardy, all the way from the Arctic to the Antarctic and every place in between.
It’s not invasive.
It doesn’t spread and take over.
And it’s not fussy about soil.
About Ask Grumpy
Ask Grumpyis a podcast featuring Steve Bender, also known asSouthern LivingsGrumpy Gardener.
