<h4>You're browser does not support iFrames - here is an exerpt of the content</h4> <a href="http://veggies-only.blogspot.com/2010/07/whos-eating-my-beans-again.html">Click here to read the article in full</a> My heritage beans <strong><em>'Mrs Fortunes'</em></strong> have just started to crop. These lovely purple specked beans are coming thick and fast now. But there is a problem...<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwMrtu0SkI/AAAAAAAADr8/dF2zjE9aR-w/s1600/DSC07757.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493279590635031106" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwMrtu0SkI/AAAAAAAADr8/dF2zjE9aR-w/s400/DSC07757.JPG" /></a> Something has been eating the leaves. Blog readers were kind enough to suggest who might be a culprit for eating my runner bean flowers so I thought I might put it out to you to see who it is this time.<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwMX_cQx4I/AAAAAAAADr0/n10XQMFS3JM/s1600/DSC07822.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493279251791660930" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwMX_cQx4I/AAAAAAAADr0/n10XQMFS3JM/s400/DSC07822.JPG" /></a> Was it slugs? blackbirds? snails? deer? Great big chunks of leaf are disappearing at the base of the plant.<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwMFD7z-wI/AAAAAAAADrs/NEBlIEGVU4E/s1600/DSC07821.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493278926580218626" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwMFD7z-wI/AAAAAAAADrs/NEBlIEGVU4E/s400/DSC07821.JPG" /></a> Previously with my runner beans I had been wondering why the flowers weren't setting, I thought they were being eaten. One of the suggestions was that the dry weather didn't suit runner beans who like a moist atmosphere to aid pollination.<br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwLZJ5sdPI/AAAAAAAADrk/hbKOHlWYC-I/s1600/DSC07803.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493278172267705586" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwLZJ5sdPI/AAAAAAAADrk/hbKOHlWYC-I/s400/DSC07803.JPG" /></a> We haven't had rain here for months, so I started spraying the runner bean foliage each day as well as keeping the roots wet.<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwLIPfPZMI/AAAAAAAADrc/8ddRN8UwZ_Q/s1600/DSC07826.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493277881709585602" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwLIPfPZMI/AAAAAAAADrc/8ddRN8UwZ_Q/s400/DSC07826.JPG" /></a> And hey presto! runner beans have set! A moist atmosphere helps the flowers pollinate and the runner beans have been setting.</div><div></div><div>So why are my climbing beans <strong><em>Mrs Fortunes</em></strong> being eaten?</div><div></div><div>I found out today...<br /><br />It wasn't a slug.<br /><br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwK1CWeIJI/AAAAAAAADrU/qmoIG9wZ6As/s1600/redhanded.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493277551765627026" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwK1CWeIJI/AAAAAAAADrU/qmoIG9wZ6As/s400/redhanded.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwKjnA-zEI/AAAAAAAADrM/WwlNCR99g0A/s1600/redhanded1.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493277252369960002" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwKjnA-zEI/AAAAAAAADrM/WwlNCR99g0A/s400/redhanded1.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwKUUrzl5I/AAAAAAAADrE/THLE8ymtEO8/s1600/redhanded2.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493276989751269266" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CAbxtOKD8Tc/TDwKUUrzl5I/AAAAAAAADrE/THLE8ymtEO8/s400/redhanded2.JPG" /></a> Buddy loves veggies! every so often he just nibbles some greenery!</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28615441-2800999796943745782?l=veggies-only.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
