Hello,

I planted my pole and some bush beans about 2 weeks ago, and they have started coming up. Unfortunately, the warm weather we hard in early May turned cool and wet for over a week, and the beans are coming up rather slowly and sickly, and are getting chewed up by pests before they can develop good first leaves. I have put a lot of sluggo out, but it may be too late to keep the slugs off of newly emerging seedlings, and I think that there are other pests that are causing problems as well. Also, just sprouting in bad conditions can make the plants weak and sickly from what I understand.

I was wondering, if the plant's first leaves are mostly chewed or bad, (say 75% gone) but there is a growing tip on the plant, is it better to let it live, or to re-plant and lose the previously couple of weeks growing time? What is a good criteria to help decide whether or not plants are too sickly to keep?