Growing Beans - dwarf, also French beans, Bush beans

17 Aug 15 William Barnett (Australia - temperate climate): Hoi Just reading your issue with the beans sounds like you might have a problem similar to what I have had a few years ago my issue was a fungal disease called fusarium wilt possibly from sugar cane mulch used underneath grosse lisse tomatoes disease starts at the base leaves and works it way up the plant turning brown. I have continued to to solve the problem by laying newspaper and pea straw over the affected area and setting alight burn the area and digging the charred paper and straw remains into the soil laying

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Hoi Just reading your issue with the beans sounds like you might have a problem similar to what I have had a few years ago my issue was a fungal disease called fusarium wilt possibly from sugar cane mulch used underneath grosse lisse tomatoes disease starts at the base leaves and works it way up the plant turning brown. I have continued to to solve the problem by laying newspaper and pea straw over the affected area and setting alight burn the area and digging the charred paper and straw remains into the soil laying

- William Barnett

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