I've got green beans and butter beans that just won't produce. The vines are healthy and look good, but blooms are scarce. I figure something is missing in the soil, but I'm not sure what. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Could be a number of things....too much nitrogen, too much heat, not enough sunlight, too much water...

Could be too much water. We've gotten a lot of rain. It's only been a problem the last few years. We tried spacing the plants out a little more this year, but it doesn't appear to have made a difference. Heat hasn't been too bad up to this point.

I just tilled my green beans under two weeks ago. . I was wore out from picking them. Put up over 100 packs in the freezer. SW Arkansas. I always consider green beans a late spring producer. I till mine under mid June and plant peas.

High levels of nitrogen will produce lots of leafy growth, but will harm bean production.

Keith

Goodness....how u grow anything in gravel???

Friend said the blossoms were falling off his beans because of the heat. Maybe that is your problem.

I wonder that myself. Peas and beans grow good. Okra okay. Corn, squash, tomatoes - not so much

Two main offenders are heat and lack of potassium.
Nitrogen = green leaf growth
Potassium = flowering
Phosphorus = root growth
Boron = fruit / seed set (affects head size for cabbage and Broccoli/Cauliflower also affects tomatoes.)
Copper Sulfate = leaf size (lack of it causes smaller leaves.)

Good post Rye. Throw unlock the PH in there.

We had a decade of Miracle Grow madness
and determinate "tomato blight".
Many would ask, but few would listen.

Thanks for the replies. Very helpful.

I started drying and then grinding my egg shells then put in what, 1/8 cup in the hole when bedding the plants(I start my green beans in trays first). Ground egg shells are Huge for producing lots of blossoms.